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Direct linkSuransky, Caroline; van der Merwe, J. C. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
Twenty years after Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa, deeply entrenched inequalities and injustices are still at the core of the country's social fabric. South Africa's public and private sectors continue to battle with the situation and higher education institutions are no exception. The South African Ministry of Education has…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Social Change, Organizational Culture, Student Leadership
Ndimande, Bekisizwe S. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
The dismantling of apartheid in 1994 brought an array of democratic changes in South Africa, including changes in curriculum and educational policies. One of the most momentous changes was the desegregation of public schools. While this was significant in South African education politics, it presented some educational challenges, especially to…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Public Schools, Racial Segregation, Democracy
Jawitz, Jeff – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
Despite efforts to transform the racialised system of higher education in South Africa inherited from apartheid, there has been little research published that interrogates the relationship between race and the experience of academic staff within the South African higher education environment. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and critical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Segregation, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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
McKinney, Carolyn – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2007
This paper explores difficulties in talking about "race" and difference in a post-apartheid university classroom. The data come from classroom-based research conducted in a first-year undergraduate English Studies course at a historically "white" and Afrikaans university in South Africa. Drawing on poststructuralist ideas on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, College Students, Whites
Walker, Melanie – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2005
This paper explores both the personal narratives of a group of black and white undergraduate students and the institutional discourse at one historically white and Afrikaans medium university now undergoing its own transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. It considers how students talk about their actual experiences and the micro-realties of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
