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Title: | From People's Education to Neo-Liberalism in South Africa |
Author: | Vally, Salim |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 111 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 39-56 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | educational policy social and economic rights educational history Law, Human Rights and Violence Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240701340258 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4D01AE702BB81664001B |
Abstract: | This paper argues that South Africa's constitution and the various laws that supplement it, including education legislation, rests on and sustains specific patterns of asymmetrical social relations and political order. The constitution has not been able to compensate for the systematic undermining of ideals of social justice by the routine operation of society's structures and institutions. The paper shows that the nature of the negotiated settlement between the liberation movement and the apartheid State, the continuation of the capitalist character of the State (despite the discourse of human rights and development) and the incorporation of South Africa into a global market economy ruptured the education principles and practices established by civil society in the 1970s and 1980s. It also shows that while radical education praxis has been weakened, it still exists, and its centre of gravity has shifted to the new social movements post-1994. Bibliogr., notes., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |