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The Asymmetries of Contact: An Assessment of 30 Years of School Integration in South Africa
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Soudien, Crain – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2007
The essential argument made in this paper is that contact in the South African school is structured around fundamentally asymmetric relations of "knowing" between groups. Three distinct periods are delineated, the first of which (1976-1990) contained the most substantial ideas and contributions to debates and actual steps taken with…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Social Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries