Collaborative Partnerships and the Transformation of Secondary Education through ICTs in South Africa

Autor/in	Evoh, Chijioke J.
Titel	Collaborative Partnerships and the Transformation of Secondary Education through ICTs in South Africa
Quelle	In: Educational Media International, 44 (2007) 2, S.81-98 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-3987
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Technology; Secondary Education; Private Sector; Educational Policy; Cooperative Planning; Information Technology; Access to Education; Educational Quality; School Community Relationship; Government Role; Partnerships in Education; Case Studies; Models; Developing Nations; Government School Relationship; Africa; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Unterrichtsmedien; Sekundarbereich; Privater Sektor; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Informationstechnologie; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Analogiemodell; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Afrika; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The focus of this study is on lessons learned by collaborative partnerships that use ICTs to expand access to and improve the quality of secondary education in South Africa. Secondary education is the most strategic, and unfortunately the least developed education sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Empirical studies show that, in addition to traditional solutions, ICTs may be the most feasible and economically sound means of expanding access to and improving the quality of secondary education and for achieving the goals of "Education for All" in Africa. However, due to resource constraints, governments in the region cannot successfully integrate ICTs in secondary education on their own. Hence, there is the need for strategic collaboration between the government, the private sector and the civil society. This study draws from the experience of two collaborative partnerships that use ICT to promote secondary education in South Africa, namely: the Mindset Network Organization and the Khanya Education Technology Project. The objective is to use these cases to understand how collaborative partnerships implement ICT in education policy for the benefit of secondary education, and how to sustain such partnerships. The case studies were used to develop sustainability models of partnerships for ICT in secondary education within the context of developing countries in SSA. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure and 4 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10