Teacher education in post-apartheid South Africa: Navigating a way through competing state and global imperatives for change

Prospects

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-54

  Schäfer, Marc ^a   Wilmot, Di ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Economic instrumentalism; Modernist discourses; Modernization project; National and global imperatives for transformation; Social reconstructivism; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860920986     PISSN: 00331538     EISSN: 15739090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11125-012-9220-3     Document Type: Article

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