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International Perspective on Managing Racial Integration in Secondary Schools
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Naidoo, Shantha; De Beer, Zacharias Louw – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
The notion that educators are committed to effective facilitation of racial integration in secondary schools has become the keystone in developing a socially just schooling system in South Africa. This paper sets out to determine the role educators play in the transformation of schools towards racial integration, as well as their nature and…
Descriptors: Racial Integration, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Critical Race Theory
Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools
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Carter, Prudence L. – Oxford University Press, 2012
What are the features of the school environment that make students' of color incorporation greater at some schools than at others? Prudence L. Carter seeks to answer this basic but bedeviling question through a rich comparative analysis of the organizational and group dynamics in eight schools located within four cities in the United States and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Organizational Climate, Group Dynamics
Knowing Their Lines: How Social Boundaries Undermine Equity-Based Integration Policies in United States and South African Schools
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Carter, Prudence; Caruthers, Jakeya; Foster, Jessica – Perspectives in Education, 2009
In this paper we argue that although the United States and South Africa have produced qualitatively different national frames about the necessity for racial integration in education, certain practices converge in both nations at the school level that thwart integrationist goals. Drawing on sociologist Jeannie Oakes and colleagues' idea of schools…
Descriptors: Racial Integration, Racial Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Racial Integration in the USA and South Africa: Lessons in a Comparative Perspective
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Tihanyi, Krisztina – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2007
The year 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the landmark "Brown vs. Board of Education" case that put an official end to segregated schooling in the USA. Desegregation has received little attention as of late, yet a number of scholars argue that the work of desegregation is far from being complete in the USA. The aim of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Racial Integration, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, School Desegregation
Community Service Learning as Democratic Education in South Africa and the United States.
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Mendel-Reyes, Meta; Weinstein, Jeremy – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1996
Describes development of the first community service-learning program for democratic education in South Africa, based on the Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) Democracy Education Project at a black high school near Capetown (South Africa). Notes that successful transposition of the model requires recognition of complex historical and cultural…
Descriptors: Black Education, Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Democratic Values
Eighteenth Strategy for Peace Conference Report, October 13-16, 1977.
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Stanley Foundation, Muscatine, IA. – 1977
The document presents a report of a conference to stimulate study, research, and education in the field of foreign relations. The report contains summaries of small group discussions of peace and security, economic order, development, resource/population balance, the environment, and human rights. It is presented in six sections. Section I…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Conference Reports, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making Skills