Curriculum Reform in South Africa: Outcomes-Based Education in a BRICS Country
Аннотация
South Africa, a member of the BRICS group of countries, is uniquely positioned within the global education expansion project. This paper aims to remind the reader of the foundational problems in education reform in an emerging economy space, such as in BRICS, and the structural limitations to implementing policy due to constraints such as policy symbolism, policy borrowing, and the challenges facing developing countries and in the case of this paper, in South Africa. The paper presents a thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of the challenges and implications associated with the nature of an educational cooperation counter-dependency structure aimed at expanding educational reform in a BRICS country. It offers an alternative policy approach-policy learning-to address policy reform. The paper is highly relevant to contemporary academic discussions on educational policy borrowing, curriculum reform and the socio-political dynamics of education in developing countries.
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