Changing regimes: Governmentality and education policy in post-apartheid South Africa |
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Affiliation: | 1. Key State laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Institute, CAS, Lanzhou 730000, China;2. Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China;3. Key laboratory of Loess Earthquake Engineering, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China;4. Geotechnical Disaster Prevention Engineering Technology Research Center of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China;1. SIANI, Univesidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;2. Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;3. University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy;4. University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
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Abstract: | This article applies Foucault's notion of governmentality to educational restructuring in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that the nature of government in a modern state entails engaging with particular practices and domains of knowledge, which themselves constrain the changes that are conceivable and credible. Using Foucault's concepts of ‘conduct of conduct’, regimes of practices and ‘saviors’, the article outlines the approach adopted by the new government in relation to establishing constitutional ground rules and managing the economy. It argues that in its approach to restructuring education, the new government prioritised issues relating to the ‘conduct of conduct’. The article suggests that Foucault's approach of questioning normalisations might yield alternative accounts of the exercise of governmental power in changing education. It ends by proposing that a range of theoretical framings be used in engaging critically with educational change. |
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