The impact of neoliberalism on South Africa's education policy discourse post-1994: The quest for a radical critical pedagogy
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Date
2017
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Since the 1980s several different forms of privatisation had been introduced into
the South African educational system by the De Lange Commission. Since the 1990s
a raft of neoliberal policies has been implemented under the banner of
"educational transformation" by the post-apartheid state. This qualitative
exploration will apply a critical policy analysis approach to analyse the impact of
neoliberalism on post-apartheid education policy discourse in the public schooling
system in South Africa from a historical, social and critical perspective. More
specifically, I will apply the insights of critical education theory to interrogate the
impact of the neoliberal orthodoxy and its concomitant values on the public
schooling system with regard to the delivery of accessible, quality public schooling
in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Magister Educationis - Med
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neoliberalism, ideology, privatisation, public schooling, post-apartheid, transformation, discourse, democracy, radical critical pedagogy, Marxism