1st Edition

Democratizing Higher Education Policy Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By M.T. Sehoole Copyright 2005
250 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in post-apartheid reform agenda and how this agenda was emptied of its radical content as a result of global... Read more
1. Introduction  2. Struggling apartheid education  3. From resistance to reconstruction: preparing to govern  4. Assuming the power of the state  5. Bureaucratic past and democratic future  6. Change commissioned  7. The state assumes control  8. Policy literacy and organisational learning  9. Conclusion

Biography

M.T. Sehoole is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. His publications include Trade in Educational Services: Reflections on the African South African Higher Education System, How Politics Influence Merger Forms and Outcomes, and South African Journal of Education.