List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms

Introduction
Linda Chisholm

SECTION 1 CHANGING CONTOURS
Chapter 1 The development challenge in post-apartheid South African education
Haroon Bhorat

Chapter 2 Balancing public and private resources for basic education: school fees in post-apartheid South Africa
Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd

Chapter 3 Constituting the class: an analysis of the process of integration in South African schools
Crain Soudien

Chapter 4 Educational de/centralisation and the quest for equity, democracy and quality
Suzanne Grant Lewis and Shireen Motala

Chapter 5 The new face of private schooling
Jane Hofmeyr and Simon Lee

SECTION 2 CHANGING LANDSCAPES

Chapter 6 Multilingualism and education
Thobeka Mda

Chapter 7 Political change, curriculum change and social formation, 1990 to 2002
Ken Harley and Volker Wedekind

Chapter 8 Assessment, qualifications and the NQF in South African schooling
Johan Muller

Chapter 9 The case of teacher education in post-apartheid South Africa: politics and priorities
Yusuf Sayed

Chapter 10 Teacher unions, policy struggles and educational change, 1994 to 2004
Logan Govender

Chapter 11 Changes and continuities in South Africas higher education system, 1994 to 2004
Jonathan D Jansen

SECTION 3 CHANGING MARGINS
Chapter 12 Dont bite the hand that feeds you: South African education NGOs in a period of change
Seán Morrow

Chapter 13 The state of play in early childhood development
Kim Porteus

Chapter 14 Youth development in transition, 1992 to 2004
Margaret Perrow

Chapter 15 Adult basic education and social change in South Africa, 1994 to 2003
Ivor Baatjes and Khulekani Mathe

Chapter 16 The education business: private contractors in public education
John Pampallis

About the authors
Index