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Education and Training Policies in South Africa and the BRICS Countries

Successes and Failures

The Education Systems of Africa

Part of the book series: Global Education Systems ((GES))

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the status of education across Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa (BRICS) countries. It describes published data to analyze the successes and failures related to policy on social justice in these countries. The construct of political symbolism is adopted to better understand the distance between policy on social justice in education and its outcomes in practice. Methodologically, the chapter contains a review of the literature, a documentary analysis, and analysis of UNESCO (2012) data on the issue.

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    Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo & Nevensha Sing

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    Adeniran Gregory Adewusi

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Adeyemo, K.S., Sing, N., Adewusi, A.G. (2020). Education and Training Policies in South Africa and the BRICS Countries. In: Adeyemo, K.S. (eds) The Education Systems of Africa. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43042-9_32-1

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