South African schooling : the enigma of inequality : a study of the present situation and future possibilities /: the enigma of inequality : a study of the present situation and future possibilities. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nic Spaull, Jonathan D. Jansen, editors.
• Other Names: Spaull, Nic; Jansen, Jonathan D
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 370.968; Education -- South Africa; Education and state -- South Africa; Education; Education and state; South Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030188115; 3030188116
• Related ISBNs: 9783030188108
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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