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The history of South Africa presents a story of a divided education system with policies deliberately designed for disparity in the quality of provision. Prior to 1994, education policy in the country was used to constrain political, social, and economic development of people of colour, who are in the majority. Twenty years on, the widespread after-effects of this segregated education policy continue to trouble the present society from all quarters.
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Mavhunga, E., Rollnick, M. (2017). Implementing Pck Topic by Topic in Methodology Courses. In: Sickel, A.J., Witzig, S.B. (eds) Designing and Teaching the Secondary Science Methods Course. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-881-5_9
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