• REIMAGINING BASIC EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: Lessons from the Eastern Cape

REIMAGINING BASIC EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: Lessons from the Eastern Cape

: Ngoma (W.), Govender (L.) & Mc Lennan (A.) eds.

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 of300pp., map, paperback, MISTRA, Johannesburg, 2017

ISBN: 9780987034717

 

A collection of essays that examine the challenges involved in setting up an integrated Eastern Cape Department of Education and implement national policy in a unique socio-economic context characterised by high levels of social inequality.

Contributions include:

"Policy Reform is Not System Change" by Anne Mc Lennan

"National Change Interventions and Effects" by Moeketsi Letseka and Zingiswa Jojo

"The Bureaucracy's Response to Change" by Wendy Ngoma

"African Culture and School Stakeholder Participation" by Ntombozuko Duku

"Teacher Unions and Transformation: More political than educational" by Logan Govender.

Wendy Ngoma is CEO of Angle Tide Business Solutions and former Director of Wits Business School.

Logan Govender is Education Programme Manager of Save the Children South Africa.

Anne McLennan is Associate Professor of the Wits School of Governance.