Diversity High
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A01=Jonathan Jansen
A01=Saloshna Vandeyar
Author_Jonathan Jansen
Author_Saloshna Vandeyar
Category=JNDH
Category=JNF
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761839699
- Weight: 245g
- Dimensions: 155 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2008
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Diversity High offers special insight into school change and social transition in racially divided communities. It underlines the obvious notion that change is difficult and confirms that leadership in an academic environment matters in changing schools. Vandeyar and Jansen provide a thorough investigation allowing readers to distinguish second-order changes (changes to curriculum, staffing, culture, and leadership), from first-order changes, (changes in student complexion in de-racializing schools). The study demonstrates the non-linearity of reforms by capturing the dynamism of change in powerful photographic records ranging from origins to change (demonstrated through black and white to color pictures). Conveying complexity through the ways in which race, class and culture intersect to produce unintended consequences; this book is concise and expertly researched. Ultimately, Vandeyar and Jansen celebrate human agency over determinist structures at the center of change through their in-depth analysis of a white South African high school that pursued transformation against the grain of its own racial biography.
Saloshna Vandeyar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria. She is an NRF rated scientist and the recent award-winning scholar on intercultural education from the prestigious international BMW Awards. Her current scholarship interests focus on the implications of teacher and student identities in constructing classrooms inclusive of racial, linguistic and ethnic identity.
Jonathan D. Jansen is the former Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria and Fulbright Scholar to Stanford University (2007–2008). His current scholarship focuses on the politics of memory, examining how white South African students remember and enact the past.
