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Baxter, Jacqueline and Ehren, Melanie
(2019).
URL: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/24958/ac2019_all_a...
Abstract
South Africa’s history of oppression and apartheid has led to great inequalities, and educational outcomes are generally poor. Corruption has been identified as one of the reasons for systemic failure to improve. This paper supports the idea of corruption as a cultural construct, ‘its whole drama revealed in light of the existential insecurity which people feel towards it’ (Taussig, 1992: ,p.4).Using documentary analysis of a key report on corruption in education, along with focus group data, the paper examines normative perceptions of corruption and how they undermine trust in educational processes & practices, asking: a) Which factors colour normative perceptions of corruption in education b) To what extent do these perceptions undermine trust in the education system. The paper concludes that educator corruption perceptions are powerful in undermining educators’ sense of agency and self-efficacy and that distrust affects the way in which the education system operates.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Trust, capacity and accountability to improve learning outcomes in South Africa: a systems approach ES/P005888/1 DfiD - Keywords
- corruption; trust; accountability; education;South Africa; schools; systemdynamics; groupmodelbuilding; teachers; educators; learners;
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Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business > Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) - Research Group
- Citizenship and Governance
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- Jacqueline Baxter