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- Title
Strengthening Capacity of Educators for Purposes of Delivering High Quality Education in South Africa.
- Authors
Mantshiu, Shibe Rachel; Odeku, Kola O.
- Abstract
This study focuses on the transformative interventions for educators in ensuring the right of access to quality education in South Africa. It highlights the right of access to education as provided in section 29 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996. It examines the effect of poor education to the black majority and qualifications of educators during the apartheid period and how this has impacted poor black schools and learners where education was woefully inadequate. It argues that poor performance in black schools emanates from incapacity of educators in providing quality education. Although there was a radical transition in educational laws and programs from apartheid to post- apartheid, till date there are still challenges in the implementation of these policies and laws. The transformative interventions have been suffering major setbacks because the legacy of apartheid and also poor educational facilities and lack of human capacity in poor black schools. This is because even after the demised of the apartheid, South Africa is remains the world's most economically unequal country. The article recommends that government, as a matter of urgency, needs to improve and strengthen educators and teachers' capacity in order to empower them to deliver high standard and quality pedagogy in black schools.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; APARTHEID; EDUCATIONAL quality; EDUCATORS; TEACHER educators; SCHOOL facilities; HIGHER education
- Publication
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, 2020, Vol 17, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
1819-8465
- Publication type
Article