Tracking racial desegregation in South African schools
SOURCE: Journal of Education
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Chisholm, M.Sujee
KEYWORDS: EDUCATION, RACE RELATIONS, RACIAL SEGREGATION
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4163
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6479
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6479
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2006
TITLE AUTHOR(S): L.Chisholm, M.Sujee
KEYWORDS: EDUCATION, RACE RELATIONS, RACIAL SEGREGATION
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4163
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6479
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6479
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine what the national Education Management Information Statistics database is able to tell us about the racial desegregation of schools and to compare this with findings from qualitative research.Examining challenges in the data and using simple statistical technique to analyse a dataset for 2001, the paper shows that overall patterns appear to confirm the findings of qualitatie research that there has been more movement from and integration of African learners ito schools previously defined as Indian and Coloured; that schools previously defined as white remain largely so and that the statistics for the Western Cape on race provide an interesting contrast with other provinces. The article shows how diverse the picture is provincialy and raises questions about race-based statistics and what they can and cannot tell us about the role of schools in changing broader racial and class identities.-
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