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Title:Privatisation and the educational politics of the new right
Author:Kallaway, P.ISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:South African Review - SARS
Issue:5
Pages:149-162
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:educational policy
Abstract:Reform strategies in South Africa during the latter half of the 1980s have been strongly influenced by global policies. Big business and government are increasingly following the lead of the new right in the advanced capitalist nations. Much of the ethos of the privatization revolution has been taken up in the South African context by key private sector elements. The evolving synthesis between liberal-democratic ideology and the politics of the new right is in fundamental conflict with the values and programmes of social democracy as expressed in documents such as the Freedom Charter. The private sector in South Africa has been increasingly involved in education reform since the establishment in 1959 of the Industrial Fund for Assistance to Private Schools. Originally, the private sector emphasized the urgent need for a national educational system to suit the broader needs of industry. Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing realization that the entire elementary education infrastructure requires upgrading if the minimum demands of the mass of the people and employers are to be met. South Africa is already well into a scenario aimed at a massive redistribution of social and educational resources in favour of the mass of the population. The era of free or virtually free, privileged State education for white children is rapidly drawing to a close. Ref.
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