Diversify, unity and national development: Findings from desegregated Gauteng schools

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-350

  Weber, Everard ^a   Nkomo, Mokubung ^b   Amsterdam, Christina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Desegregated schools; Diversity; Educational change; Nation building

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950109649     PISSN: 02582236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Alexander N 2001. The politics of identity in post-apartheid South Africa. In: J Muller, N Cloete & S Badat (eds). Challenges of Globalisation: South African debates with Manuel Castells. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman.
2. Dolby NE 2001. Constructing race: youth, identity and popular culture in South Africa. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
3. Cousins LH 1999. "Playing between Classes": America's Troubles with Class, Race, and Gender in a Black High School and Community. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 30: 294-316.
4. Hall S 1996. Who needs identity? In: S Hall & P Du Gay (eds). Questions of cultural identity. London: Sage.
5. Katzenelson I 1981. City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. McCarthy C 1997. Non-synchrony and social difference: An alternative to current radical accounts of race and schooling. In: AH Halsey, H Luader, P Stuart & A Wells (eds). Education, culture, economy, society. London: Open University Press.
7. Nkomo M & Vandeyar S 2008. In search of best practice in South African desegregated schools. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council.
8. Nieto S 1998. Cultural Difference and Educational Change in a Socio-political Context. In: A Hargreaves, A Lieberman, M Fullan & D Hopkins (eds). International Handbook of Educational Change, Vol. 1. Dordrecht: Kluver.
9. Omi M & Winant H 1986. Racial Formation in the United States. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
10. Phatlane R 2009. Is Close Proximity Joy or Pain? Perceptions from Learners in a Desegregated South African High School. In: M Nkomo & S Vandeyar (eds). Thinking Diversity, Building Cohesion: A Transnational Dialogue on Education. Amsterdam/Pretoria: Rozenberg Publishers and UNISA Press.
11. Soudien C, Carrim N & Sayed Y 2004. School inclusion and exclusion in South Africa: some theoretical and methodological considerations. In: M Nkomo, C McKinney & L Chisholm (eds). Reflections on School Integration: Colloquium Proceedings. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council.
12. Thompson EP 1966. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage Press TLC.
13. Vally S & Dalamba Y 1999. Racism, 'Racial Integration' and Desegregation in South African Public Secondary Schools: A Report on a Study by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Johannesburg: SAHRC.
14. Vandeyar S & Jansen JD 2008. Diversity High: Class, culture, and character in a South African high school. New York: University Press of America.
15. Weber E 2006. Teaching in the new South Africa at Merrydale High School. Lanham: University Press of America.
16. Wells A, Holme J, Revilla A & Atanda A 2005. How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society. Unpublished Report.
17. Willis P 1977. Learning to Labor. New York: Columbia University Press.