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COMPARATIVE AND
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Assignment 03
HBEDECS

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8U
734033


PLAGIARISM DECLARATION


1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is using another’s work and
pretending that is one’s own work.
2. I have used the Augmented Harvard Method as the convention for citation
and referencing. Each significant contribution to, and quotation in, this
assignment from the word, or works of other people has been attributed and
has been cited and referenced.
3. This assignment is my own work.
4. I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the
intention of passing it off as his or her own work.
5. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is
wrong, and declares that this assignment is my own work.

NAME: Hester Scholtz
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SIGNATURE: _________________________
DATE: 31/8/2018
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,H.W.C. Scholtz HBEDECS Unique number
4907-493-8 Assignment 3 734033

Contents
SECTION A: THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE EDUCATION ................ 2
1. Comparative Education as an interdisciplinary field of study . 2
a) Facets of Comparison .......................................................... 2
b) Reasons for doing Comparative Education .......................... 4
2. Key characteristics of both Qualitative and Quantitative
Research Approaches in the field of Comparative and
International Education ......................................................... 5
3. Five most important policy directions in the new education
dispensation of South Africa after 1994 ................................ 7
SECTION C: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION ................ 12
6. Inclusive Education ..................................................................... 12
6.1 Basic Principles of legal inclusion of learners with special
educational needs in general and the South African education
system in particular ...................................................................... 12
6.2 Challenges of implementing inclusive education in South
Africa ............................................................................................ 14
7. Improving quality education ........................................................ 20
7.1 Key indicators for improving the provisioning of early childhood
education of the future .................................................................. 20
7.2 Parent involvement ............................................................... 22




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, H.W.C. Scholtz HBEDECS Unique number
4907-493-8 Assignment 3 734033

SECTION A: THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE
EDUCATION

1. Comparative Education as an interdisciplinary field of

study

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (2018, s.v.

‘interdisciplinary’) the concept interdisciplinary refers to a study that

involves two or more academic, scientific, or artistic disciplines.

Comparative education focuses on comparisons of different practices in

education in different countries, regions and periods of history

(Berkhout 2010:1). A noteworthy aspect of these comparisons has

been to describe, define, analyse, interpret and compare education

systems as they develop in the modern world.

a) Facets of Comparison

There are many facets of education that needs to be compared when

an educational comparison is being made (Berkhout 2010:4), such as:


 Governance and control structures

o Analysing the structure of control to identify how the

power work in each system, where the power lies, who

makes the decisions. Is the control centralised or

decentralised? Is the control structure participative or

oppressive? These questions are only some of the

questions that needs to be asked in order to gain

perspective on the different governance and control

structures in the study.


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