Overcoming the apartheid legacy in Cape Town schools

Geographical Review

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-538

  Lemon, Anthony ^a   Battersby Lennard, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Desegregation; Education; Inequalities; South Africa; Spatial policies

Indexed keywords

APARTHEID; EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; RACIAL SEGREGATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; CAPE TOWN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN CAPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350116807     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2009.tb00445.x     Document Type: Article

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