South African Schooling: The Enigma of Inequality

A Study of the Present Situation and Future Possibilities

AvNic Spaull,Jonathan D. Jansen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del 10 i serien Policy Implications of Research in Education

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Beskrivning

This volume brings together many of South Africa’s leading scholars of education and covers the full range of South African schooling: from financing and policy reform to in-depth discussions of literacy, numeracy, teacher development and curriculum change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:740 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Policy Implications of Research in Education
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030188108

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1. Equity: A Price Too High to Pay?; Nic Spaull.- 2. Educational Outcomes in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Signs of progress Despite Great Inequality; Servaas van der Berg & Martin Gustafsson.- 3. Pursuing Equity Through Policy in the Schooling Sector 2007-2017; Martin Gustafsson.- 4. Educational Funding and Equity in South African Schools; Shireen Motala & David Carel.- 5. Early Childhood Development in South Africa: Inequality and Opportunity; Michaela Ashley- Cooper, Lauren Jayne & Eric Atmore.- 6. Curriculum Reform and Learner Performance: An Obstinate Paradoxin the Quest for Equality; Johan Muller & Ursula Hoadley.- 7. How Language Policy and Practice Sustains Inequality in Education; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane.- 8. Still Falling at the First Hurdle: Examining Early Grade Reading In South Africa; Nic Spaull & Elizabeth Pretorius.- 9. Mathematics Achievement and the Inequality Gap: TIMSS 1995-2015; Vijay Reddy, Andrea Juan, Kathryn Isdale & Samuel Fongwa.- 10. Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge, Teaching and the Problem of Inequality; Hamsa Venkat.- 11. Learner’s Written Work: An Overview of Quality, Quantity and Focus in South African Primary Schools; Paul Hobden & Sally Hobden.- 12. Gender Inequality in South African Schools: New Complexities; Linda Zuze & Unathi Beku.- 13. Teacher Development and Inequality in Schools: Do we now have a Theory of Change?; Yael Shalem & Francine De Clerq.- 14. Inequalities in Teacher Knowledge in South Africa; Nick Taylor.- 15. Race, Class and Inequality in Education: Black Parents in White-Dominant Schools after Apartheid; Tshepiso Matentjie.- 16. School leadership and Management: Identifying Linkages with Learning and Structural Inequalities; Gabrielle Wills.- 17. How can Learning Inequalities Be Reduced? Lessons Learnt from Experimental Research in South Africa; Stephen Taylor.- 18. Taking Change to Scale: Lessons from the Jika iMfundo Campaign for Overcoming Inequality in Schools; Mary Metcalfe & Al Witten.- 19. Inequality in Education: What is to be Done?; Jonathan Jansen.