Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa Overcoming the Historical Imprint of a Low Skills Regime

by McGrath, Simon; Badroodien, Azeem; Kraak, Andre; Unwin, Lorna

• ISBN13: 9780796920447
• ISBN10: 0796920443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: HSRC Press

Summary

The South African preoccupation with worker skills and skills acquisition is addressed and analyzed in this compilation of essays on the multiple and shifting meanings of the word skill within the country.

Author Biography

Simon McGrath, Azeem Badroodien, Andre Kraak, and Lorna Unwin are members of Human Resources Development, a division of the Human Sciences Research Council that specializes in postcompulsory education and training, labor market transitions, and skills formation in the workplace.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	v
List of Acronyms	vi
Introduction: The shifting understandings of skills in South Africa since industrialisation	1	(19)
Simon McGrath
Technical and vocational education provision in South Africa from 1920 to 1970	20	(26)
Azeem Badroodien
Training policies under late apartheid: the historical imprint of a low skills regime	46	(25)
Andre Kraak
Agricultural and industrial curricula for South African rural schools: colonial origins and contemporary continuities	71	(27)
Andrew Paterson
High skills: the concept and its application to South Africa	98	(18)
David N Ashton
The National Skills Development Strategy: a new institutional regime for skills formation in post-apartheid South Africa	116	(24)
Andre Kraak
Understanding the size of the problem: the National Skills Development Strategy and enterprise training in South Africa	140	(18)
Azeem Badroodien
The state of the South African Further Education and Training college sector	158	(17)
Simon McGrath
A future curriculum mandate for Further Education and Training colleges: recognising intermediate knowledge and skill	175	(19)
Jeanne Gamble
Skills development for enterprise development: a major challenge for `joined-up' policy	194	(18)
Simon McGrath
Rethinking the high skills thesis in South Africa	212	(26)
Andre Kraak
Towards economic prosperity and social justice: can South Africa show the way for policy-making on skills?	238	(15)
Lorna Unwin
References	253