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The politics and governance of basic education : a tale of two South African provinces / Brian Levy, Robert Cameron, Ursula Hoadley, and Vinothan Naidoo.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Basic education--South Africa.
- Basic education.
- Education and state--South Africa.
- Education and state.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Many of the problems in basic education stem from issues in politics and governance. This book uses the example of South Africa to demonstrate this challenge. It explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affect educational outcomes, and proposes an innovative strategy for progress.
- Contents:
- Part I. Framing the issues
- 1. Improving basic education - the governance challenge / Brian Levy
- 2. The transformation of South Africa's system of basic education / Luis Crouch and Ursula Hoadley
- 3. Education policymaking at national level : the politics of multiple principals / Robert Cameron and Vinothan Naidoo
- Part II. Provincial governance and politics of education
- 4. Provincial governance of education - the Western Cape experience / Robert Cameron and Brian Levy
- 5. Provincial governance of education - the Eastern Cape experience / Zukiswa Kota, Monica Hendricks, Eric Matambo and Vinothan Naidoo
- 6. Explaining the Western Cape performance paradox : an econometric analysis / Gabrielle Wills, Debra Shepherd, and Janeli Kotzé
- 7. Context and capability : a tale of tow bureaucracies / Brian Levy, Robert Cameron and Vinothan Naidoo
- Part III. Horizontal governance
- 8. Case studies of school-level governance dynamics in the Western Cape / Ursula Hoadley, Brian Levy, Lawule Shumane, and Shelly Wilburn
- 9. Case studies of school-level governance dynamics in the Eastern Cape / Brian Levy and Lawule Shumane
- 10. 'All for education' - meeting the governance challenge / Brian Levy.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 23, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 9780192557360
- 019255736X
- 9780191862748
- 0191862746
- 9780192557353
- 0192557351
- OCLC:
- 1076720533
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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