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In an ideal situation, the education system should be a microcosm of society’s culture, yet in modern class societies, it largely represents the interests of the dominant and elite socio-cultural subgroups (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977; Bowles & Gintis, 1976; Marginson, 2009).
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Runhare, T., Muvirimi, C. (2017). Partisan Politics in Civic Education. In: Shizha, E., Makuvaza, N. (eds) Re-thinking Postcolonial Education in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-962-1_7
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