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Title:Gender, Education and the Transition to Democracy: Research, Theory and Policy in South Africa, c. 1980-1998
Authors:Chisholm, LindaISNI
Unterhalter, ElaineISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:39
Pages:1-25
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:gender relations
education
Women's Issues
Education and Oral Traditions
Politics and Government
nationalism
Bibliography/Research
Education and Training
Historical/Biographical
research
External link:https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/368/OBJ/download
Abstract:This article analyses a range of published and unpublished writings on gender and education in South Africa. It first outlines the theoretical and methodological perspectives which have characterized the research carried out on gender and education in South Africa since 1980. Second, it indicates some of the policies informed by these approaches that are being put into place by national and provincial ministries and NGOs. The authors use the distinction now made in development discourse between Women and Development (WID) and Gender and Development (GAD) approaches. Recent writers have shown how an earlier stress on WID - equality of opportunity for women - has now been replaced by GAD - notions of gender equity. The difficulty in applying these approaches unproblematically to South Africa is that the historical periodization does not conform to that in South Africa, where both approaches have co-existed since 1976. Finally, the article highlights some significant silences in this research. Compared to developed countries, in South Africa little research is being conducted on important areas such as gender identity, sexuality, citizenship, feminist epistemology and the curriculum, classroom dynamics, assessment and teachers' work. Bibliogr.
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