O foco desta pesquisa é analisar a construção das identidades de professores de inglês que atuam no ensino público. Esta é uma pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho etnográfico, que visa investigar de que maneira ocorre essa construção identitária e quais os aspectos que mais a influenciam. Através de entrevistas e de questionários respondidos por professores de escolas públicas da cidade de São Paulo, e de entrevistas com alguns de seus alunos, procuramos realizar esta análise sob alguns aspectos ideológicos, como a busca por modelos institucionalizados e a formação de hábitos culturais. As concepções que embasam este trabalho são a identidade política e cultural, apontada por autores como Bakhtin (2002), Hall (2000) e Bhabha (1998), e a pedagogia crítica, desenvolvida por Freire (1970) e utilizada por autores como Giroux (1997) e Bianchetti (2001). Teorias sobre a construção de ideologias, apontadas por autores como Ricoeur (1988) e Bruner (1986), também fazem parte do estudo. As análises indicam que os principais fatores que levam à escolha da profissão de professor de inglês são o “gosto” pela língua e a crença na “necessidade” da aprendizagem dessa língua – ambos construídos pelos ideais neoliberais – além da busca pela “sobrevivência” no mercado de trabalho e pela ascensão social que esse conhecimento promete trazer ao indivíduo. A escolha da profissão se mostra, portanto, bastante influenciada pela ideologia neoliberal. A construção identitária, no entanto, não ocorre de forma passiva, já que os professores, também têm influência nas relações sociais e na formação de identidades. Notamos que os professores investigados nem sempre demonstram total consciência das construções sociais e culturais. Entretanto, observamos evidências de desenvolvimento crítico em vários depoimentos de professores. Além disso, notamos questionamentos de alguns alunos acerca da “real necessidade” de se aprender inglês. / This study focuses on the investigation of the professional identities of English teachers who work in public schools in the city of São Paulo. This is a qualitative research, with ethnographic aspects, aiming at analyzing the ways in which the professional identities of the investigated community are built. Through interviews with teachers and some of their students, as well as some questionnaires answered by some of the teachers, we have analyzed their identity construction under some aspects such as the adequacy to institutionalized models and the formation of cultural habits. The concept of identity used in this study is the concept of a social and political identity, pointed out by some authors such as Bakhtin (2002), Hall (2000) and Bhabha (1998). Other theories used in this study are the critical pedagogy, developed by Freire (1970) and also used by other authors like Giroux (1997), and Bianchetti (2001), as well as the theories of ideology construction, pointed out by authors like Ricoeur (1988) and Bruner (1986). The analyses indicate that the main factors that lead to the professional choice of English teachers are the “admiration” for the language and the belief in the “necessity” of learning it – both of them built by the neoliberal ideology – besides the search for “survival” in the job market and the social improvement that this knowledge promises to bring to the individual. The professional choice, therefore, has proved to be strongly influenced by the neoliberal ideology. The identity construction, however, does not take place in a passive way, since the teacher also influence in the social relations and in the construction of identities. It is noted that the teachers do not always demonstrate total awareness of the social and cultural constructions in a society. However, criticism was observed in various statements provided by the teachers. Besides, some students have questioned the “real necessity” of learning English.

Esse trabalho é um catálogo de onze escolas públicas projetadas no estado de São Paulo num período que se estende por pouco mais de uma década, de 1960 a 1972. Reúne projetos emblemáticos da arquitetura moderna paulistana, de autoria de Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Ubyrajara Gilioli, Paulos Bastos, Décio Tozzi, entre outros. A leitura dos projetos selecionados permite reconhecer suas raízes históricas e arquitetônicas no surgimento da escola republicana, nas conquistas pedagógicas escolanovistas, nas escolas projetadas por Affonso Eduardo Reidy e Oscar Niemeyer, nas obras da Comissão Executiva do Convênio Escolar e, finalmente, na obra precursora do arquiteto João Batista Vilanova Artigas. / This thesis is an analysis of eleven public schools which were projected in the state of São Paulo within a period of little more than ten years from 1960 to 1972. It gathers emblematic projects of the modern architecture of São Paulo with works by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Ubyrajara Gilioli, Paulos Bastos and Décio Tozzi among others. A comprehensive study of these selected projects allows for an understanding of how they are historically and architectonically rooted in the emergence of public schools during the republic, in the pedagogic accomplishments of the movement of the Escola Nova (New School) , in the schools which were planned and executed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy and Oscar Niemeyer, in the projects of the Comissão Executiva do Convênio Escolar (a council which was established as a collaboration between state and community authorities) , and finally, in the pioneering works of the architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas.

Com a promulgação do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), no ano de 1990, crianças e adolescentes passam a ser entendidos como sujeitos de direitos, estando prevista a sua proteção integral. Nesse sentido, o ECA pôs em questão as formas tradicionais de atendimento destinadas a essa população e, como conseqüência, a demanda de revisão das políticas públicas e das modalidades de atendimento nelas previstas. A Fundação Estadual do Bem Estar do Menor (FEBEM), instituição responsável pelo atendimento destinado a jovens em conflito com a lei, para se adequar ao ECA, passou a enfatizar o caráter educativo de suas Unidades de Internação. Com vistas a reforçar esse caráter, em janeiro de 2003 a FEBEM-SP foi vinculada à Secretaria Estadual da Educação, o que possibilitou definir o processo de escolarização dos internos como a base de sua atuação. Diante deste quadro, o objetivo deste projeto de pesquisa é entender o funcionamento da escola pública na FEBEM e o significado que ela adquire no interior de uma instituição de caráter prisional. Para investigar as condições atuais do processo de escolarização, foram realizadas observações participantes em sala de aula e entrevistas com duas professoras da rede pública estadual de ensino, que lecionam no Complexo de Internação pesquisado. Para o tratamento dos dados obtidos nas entrevistas foi realizada uma análise contextual dos relatos, segundo a definição de Ecléa Bosi. Esta análise permite concluir que a presença da escola na instituição caracteriza-se pela ambigüidade. Se de um lado ela é cooptada pela lógica disciplinar da instituição, por outro ela atua como um lembrete incômodo da humanidade dos adolescentes internados. / After the promulgation of the Child and Adolescent’s Statute (CAS), in 1990, children and adolescents become comprehended as subjects of rights, once their full protection is foresighted. Therefore, CAS questioned the traditional ways in which this population had been assisted and, as a consequence, the urgency to review the public policies and their established assisting models. FEBEM, institution which has the responsibility to take care of the underage youngsters in law conflicts, in order to adequate itself to CAS, started to emphasize the educative nature of its Internship Units. Aiming to reinforce this nature, in January, 2003, São Paulo’s FEBEM got bonded to the State Education Office, defining the interns schooling process as its basic activity. At this point, this research is intended to understand the public school operation in FEBEM and the meaning it acquires within an internment institution. To investigate how the schooling process is at the present day, it has been done some participative observations during classes and interviews with two public school teachers, who have been working within the Internship Complex witch had been researched. The information obtained has been handled by a contextual analysis from the interviews, as defined by Ecléa Bosi. This analysis allows concluding that the school presence in the institution is ambiguous. It is both co-opted by the internship disciplinary logic and a disturbing reminder of all intern’s humanity as well.

A pesquisa partiu da seguinte pergunta: quais as repercussões sobre a situação escolar das crianças das camadas populares do aumento das camadas médias na escola pública? Para respondê-la realizamos um estudo etnográfico em uma escola do município de Ribeirão Preto na qual esse fenômeno estava presente. Foram realizadas observações em sala de aula e em outros espaços da escola, além de entrevistas com diretores, orientadores, professores, pais e alunos. Os resultados da pesquisa de campo foram surpreendentes, pois revelaram que a relação entre usuários de camadas médias e a escola pública é muito mais complexa do que supúnhamos. Levadas por dificuldades econômicas, algumas famílias das camadas médias transferem os filhos da rede particular para a pública. Numa tentativa de pôr a escola pública em moldes que não afetem o seu prestígio, alguns pais participam da APM e do Conselho de Escola. Imersos no preconceito social contra os pobres, desejam excluir alunos pobres vistos como mais ameaçadores. Mas a equipe dirigente e o corpo docente não permitem, utilizando a defesa de tais alunos como forma de se contrapor aos pais na disputa pelo poder que se instala. Diante desta resistência, os pais deixam de participar de tais órgãos, mas procuram exercer pressão direta no fazer dos professores. As crianças, imersas neste universo de conflito e preconceito, reproduzem a discriminação na relação com os colegas. / The research has arisen from the following question: \"what are the repercussions on lower class children due to the increase of middle class students in public schools?\" In order to answer that question, we have carried out an ethnological study in a school in the city of Ribeirão Preto where this phenomena was evident. Not only observations (inside the classroom and in other areas in the school) were made, but also interviews with directors, advisers, teachers, parents and pupils. The results of the field research were stunning since they show that the relation between students from the middle class and the public school is much more complex than we would imagine. Due to economic problems, some families, which belong to the middle class, transfer their children from private schools to public ones. Some parents end up joining an APM (an association of parents and teachers) and the School Council so that they can \"control\" the public school in such a way that it does not affect their prestige. As parents are immersed in social prejudice against the poor, they want to exclude poor students once they are seen as the most threatening ones. However, the directors and the teaching faculty do not allow that to happen - they defend poor students as a way of opposing to parents in the fight for power. Having to face this opposition, parents normally give up taking part of school groups but, on the other hand, they put pressure on what teachers are doing. The children, immersed in this universe of conflict and prejudice, propagate discrimination in the relation with their colleagues.

Este estudo tem como objetivo apresentar as alterações que ocorrem nos perfis das escolas públicas municipais do ensino fundamental classificadas como eficientes por meio da aplicação da técnica de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA), conforme se modificam as proporções dos valores percentuais da nota média na Prova Brasil e do indicador de rendimento no cálculo do Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB). Para isso, foram coletados dados sobre as notas na Prova Brasil e sobre os indicadores de rendimento de 2011 a partir da base de dados do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais (INEP), o número de alunos por escola pública municipal por meio da base de dados do Censo Escolar de 2011, que também é disponibilizado pelo INEP e finalmente, os dados sobre os recursos públicos destinados para a educação nos municípios em 2011 obtidos no Finanças do Brasil (FINBRA). Desta maneira, identificou-se as escolas mais eficientes por meio da técnica DEA que tem a finalidade de mensurar a eficiência relativa de unidades consideradas homogêneas e comparáveis, em um universo de pesquisa composto por 17.124 escolas públicas municipais do ensino fundamental. Em seguida, foram estabelecidos cinco padrões de ponderação em relação à nota média da Prova Brasil e à média do indicador de rendimento, por meio dos quais evidenciou-se que as escolas públicas municipais classificadas como eficientes se localizam principalmente em municípios pequenos e que conforme se aumenta o valor percentual da nota média da Prova Brasil ocorre uma mudança de eixo de eficiência saindo da região nordeste em direção as regiões sudeste e sul. Portanto, o presente estudo fornece subsídios e suporte para a discussão, alteração, criação e desenvolvimento de sistemas avaliativos padronizados que melhor transpareçam a realidade educacional brasileira, de tal modo, que os seus resultados possibilitem a proposição de soluções mais efetivas para combater os baixos indicadores educacionais do país. / This study aims to present the changes that occur in the profiles of local public elementary schools classified as efficient by applying the technique of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), as modify the proportions of the percentages of the average grade in the Prova Brasil and the performance indicator in calculating the Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB). For this, data on the grades in Prova Brasil on performance indicators from 2011 from the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais (INEP) were collected, the number of students per public school through the base data from the Censo Escolar 2011, which is also available by INEP and finally, data on public resources for education in the municipalities in 2011 obtained the Finanças do Brasil (FINBRA). Thus, we identified the most effective schools through the DEA technique that aims to measure the relative efficiency of units considered homogeneous and comparable, in a research universe consists of 17.124 municipal public elementary schools. Then, five patterns were established weighting relative to the average grade of Prova Brasil and the average performance indicator, by means of which became evident that public schools classified as efficient lie mostly in small towns and as if increases the percentage of the average grade of Prova Brasil a change of axis of efficiency out of the northeast toward the southeast and south occurs. Therefore, the present study provides grants and support for discussion, modification, creation and development of standardized assessment systems that better showing through and the Brazilian, so educational reality, their results allow to propose more effective solutions to combat the low indicators education in the country.

Os prédios escolares são importantes marcos na paisagem urbana das cidades paulistas. Um dos símbolos da presença do Estado e do desenvolvimento econômico e social, a arquitetura das escolas públicas em São Paulo é representativa de diferentes períodos da arquitetura paulista. Na arquitetura escolar consolidam-se as características do estilo da época, espelham-se as políticas publicas e manifestam-se vanguardas de partidos arquitetônicos. Considerando a representatividade dos edifícios públicos destinados à abrigar as escolas e a sua contribuição para a história da arquitetura paulista, esse trabalho pretende abordar questões relativas à formulação de novas diretrizes para a construção de prédios escolares na década de 30, baseadas nos ideais e propostas pedagógicas em discussão naquele momento, destacando à evolução formal e estética dos prédios escolares; os partidos e programas arquitetônicos adotados a partir das novas diretrizes para educação pública e a introdução de novas técnicas construtivas e materiais de construção. A identificação de exemplares significativos da produção arquitetônica dos prédios escolares, com destaque para aqueles considerados como de valor arquitetônico, histórico e cultural pode contribuir para a compreensão e valorização destes edifícios e de sua arquitetura, com vistas à sua preservação. / School buildings are important landmarks in the urban landscape of the cities of the state of São Paulo. One of the many symbols of the presence of the State and of social and economical development, the architecture of public schools in São Paulo represents different periods of the architecture in this state. School architecture consolidates the style of a certain period; it mirrors the public policies and represents the forefront of architect parties/groups. Considering the representativeness of public buildings developed to be schools and their contribution to the architectural history of the state of Sao Paulo, this study aims to address the factors related to the establishment of new guidelines to build school buildings in the 1930s based on the pedagogical ideals and propositions that were being discussed at that time, enhancing the formal and the esthetic evolution of schools buildings, the architectural styles and programs that were developed based on the new guidelines for public education and the introduction of new construction techniques and materials. The identification of relevant samples of architecture production in school buildings, especially of those of significant architectural, historical and cultural values, can contribute for understanding and valuing these buildings and their architecture, aiming to preserve them.

Orientador: Ana Maria Falcão de Aragão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T17:58:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Calil_JulianaAlvimBitesCastro_M.pdf: 2239939 bytes, checksum: 6ef19a830d267ec624b9cdf68b018517 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Inserida em um projeto maior proposto pela Secretaria de Educação do município de uma cidade do interior paulista em parceria com a FUNEP (Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa, Ensino e Extensão da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista), a presente pesquisa busca investigar como as equipes gestoras pensam o papel das regras na organização da escola e de que forma essas regras refletem a qualidade das relações interpessoais na Instituição de Ensino. Esta pesquisa visa, ainda, conhecer os conteúdos das regras e o modo como elas são elaboradas, implementadas e legitimadas no cotidiano das escolas analisadas. Para tanto, os dados desta pesquisa de campo decorrem da formação de três grupos focais com gestoras de cinco escolas municipais e são examinados qualitativamente, através do método de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apontam que o papel e a função primordial das regras é a organização da instituição e a prudência. As regras que objetivam a regulação da convivência e a construção da autonomia moral não foram substancialmente mencionadas. O conteúdo da maioria delas é organizacional e convencional, visando ao controle e à organização dos espaços escolares. De alguma forma, parece estar implícita a ideia de que os conflitos devem ser evitados. Há, também, regras que legislam sobre o domínio pessoal. Para as gestoras, a maioria das regras é elaborada pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação, mas, a partir do que elas verbalizam, percebe-se que muitas dessas regras têm sido criadas pelas próprias gestoras e professoras no cotidiano das escolas. Com base nos dados analisados é possível inferir, também, que o trabalho com as regras não é percebido como pedagógico. As assembleias são consideradas como recurso possível para a elaboração de regras, mas depreende-se que, em alguns momentos, há desvios de suas funções. Isso demonstra não haver estudos aprofundados acerca do papel das assembleias na escola nem acerca de como elas devem funcionar institucionalmente. Quanto à implementação das normas, na maioria das vezes, o conhecimento das regras dá-se por informação, já que no cotidiano das escolas em questão poucas regras são elaboradas coletivamente. Por fim, são analisados os procedimentos que as gestoras dizem ser utilizados pelos profissionais da escola para que as regras sejam cumpridas. A esse respeito, as gestoras relatam comunicar aos pais dos alunos sobre o descumprimento xv dessas regras na tentativa de fazer com que as cumpram. Porém, se não há o apoio familiar necessário e as alternativas de diálogo para o cumprimento das normas esgotam-se, o Conselho Tutelar é acionado, na esperança de que, de alguma maneira, as regras que consolidam as diretrizes institucionais mais importantes sejam cumpridas por todos. Há também penalizações e, com elas, a visão de que são necessárias sanções expiatórias. Assim, apesar da necessidade de alguns ajustes acerca do trabalho com as regras, constata-se que, as gestoras reconhecem a importância das normas escolares para a convivência entre as pessoas, preocupam-se com a organização dos espaços da escola de modo a proporcionar um local agradável para a comunidade frequentar e dedicam-se a realizar um bom trabalho de gestão. / Abstract: Inserted in a larger Project, proposed by the Education Department of a countryside city in Sao Paulo state in a partnership with FUNEP (Foundation for support to research, teaching and extension from UNESP - State University of Sao Paulo) aiming to study relationship among school, community and culture as well as other implications regarding a Politic- Pedagogic Project of educational institutions and about organization of their educational process, this research objectives to know how managerial teams think in regards to the role of rules in the organization of the institution as well as to know the contents of the rules and the way they're elaborated, implemented and legitimated in the studied schools' routine. In order to do that, data from this research come from the formation of three focal groups with managers of five municipal schools and qualitatively analyzed by means of content analysis. Results point that the role and fundamental function of the rules are the institution's organization and prudence. The importance of the rules for regulation of the coexistence and construction of moral autonomy have not been substantially adressed. The contents of the majority of them are organizational and conventional, objecting the control and organization of school's space. Somehow it seems that it's implicit that conflicts must be avoided. There are, also, rules that states about personal dominance. In the managers minds most of the rules are elaborated by the Education Department, however it's clear in their speeches that several of such rules have been created by themselves together with teachers in the school's daily routine. Data gathered in this research allow us to infer also that working with rules is often not seen as pedagogic. Much is talked about assembly meetings, but by their statements, we could notice that there are misfunctions of these procedures, showing that there are no previous studies on how it must work and what their roles are in the school. Regarding implementation of norms we have found that, in most of the cases, the knowledge about rules is given by information, once there is no team work while elaborating them. Lastly, we found out that managers say they're used by other schools professionals in order to make rules to be followed. What they state most frequently to do is to communicate parents and ask them to take providences in order for their children are able to obey school's rules and, when families are the party who don't follow rules, the communicate the Child Care department with the hope families are coerced to xix follow school's rules. There are also, punishment and the idea thar expiatory penalties are needed. Therefore, we conclude that managers recognize the importance or school rules for people coexistence among people, they are concerned with space organization in the school in order to offer a pleasant atmosphere for the community and also they dedicate themselves for making a good management work. / Mestrado / Psicologia Educacional / Mestra em Educação

‘n Algemene inleiding en motivering vir die studie, asook die faktore wat onder¬wysermoraal belemmer word in Hoofstuk Een aangestip. ‘n Algemene agtergrond tot onderwysermoraal word gegee. ‘n Verslag oor die transformasie van die Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysstelsel en die afname in onderwysermoraal in Suid-Afrika en oorsee word in hierdie hoofstuk gereflekteer. Die navorsingspro¬bleem en doel¬stellings word geformuleer en die navorsingsmetodologie bespreek. Die fokus van die navorsing is duidelik afgebaken. Hierdie hoofstuk word afgesluit deur konsep¬te wat met die navorsingsonderwerp verband hou, te verhelder en die hoofstuk indeling te bespreek. Hoofstuk Twee is ‘n literatuuroorsig waarin gepoog word om die essensie van onderwysermoraal vas te stel. Faktore wat ‘n bydrae tot onderwysermoraal maak, naamlik die samelewing, politiek, media en onderwysveranderings, en die rol wat deur onderwysbestuurders gespeel word in die aanspreek van onderwysermoraal word bespreek, asook die implikasie hiervan vir die praktyk. Hoofstuk Drie gee ‘n oorsig oor die navorsingsmetodologie waardeur data inge¬samel is. Daar is ‘n beskrywing van die aard en doel van kwantitatiewe navorsing, gevolg deur ‘n bespreking van die verhouding tussen die navorser en die onderwerp. Die gestruktureerde vraelys wat gebruik is om data in te samel, word bespreek. Die data is onderwerp aan die Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin-meting om te bepaal of die steekproef voldoende was. Verder is 37 items deur middel van twee opeen¬volgende faktor-analitiese prosedures gereduseer tot twee faktore. Hierdie twee fakatore is genoem “sosio-politieke aspekte wat onderwysermoraal belem¬mer” en “skoolgebaseerde aspekte wat onderwysermoraal belemmer”. Items wat met elkeen van die faktore verband hou, word getabelleer, in rangorde gerangskik en bespreek. Die empiriese ondersoek word ook bespreek. Dit sluit ‘n bespreking van die steekproef, biografiese besonderhede en die terugstuur van die vraelys in. Hoofstuk Vier voorsien ‘n ontleding en interpretasie van die empiriese data. Die geldigheid en betroubaarheid van die gestruktureerde vraelys as navorsings¬instrument word kortliks bespreek. Hipoteses word geformuleer. ‘n Vergelyking van twee onafhanklike groepe en drie of meer onafhanklike groepe word gedoen. Die statistiese beduidenheid van verskille tussen alle onafhanklike groepe word in tabelvorm weergegee en daarna bespreek ten opsigte van die twee faktore by onderwysermoraal betrokke. Levene se toets vir die gelykheid van afwykings word gebruik om die gemiddelde tellings van die twee faktore ten opsigte van onderwysermoraal te vergelyk. Die faktor-gemiddelde tellings van die verskeie onaf¬hanklike groepe word in tabelle gegee en die ANOVA vir die ontleding van afwykings bereken en kortliks bespreek. Hoofstuk Vyf gee ‘n oorsig oor die navorsing. Belangrike bevindings uit die literatuuroorsig en die empiriese navorsing word bespreek. Aanbevelings word op grond van die literatuur- en empiriese bevindings gemaak vir die verbetering van onderwysermoraal. / Prof. B.R. Grobler

M.Litt. et Phil. / The purpose of this study is to determine the need for civic education and the degree to which this need is addressed in Curriculum 2005. (Curriculum 2005 is the new education curriculum, implemented in state schools since 1998.) As a young democracy, one of the challenges South Africa faces is to consolidate democracy. Part of this challenge is to establish a culture of political tolerance. Civic education, implemented in schools, is a method to achieve these goals. In the rationale of Curriculum 2005, it is stated that ". . . the child is given opportunities to grow and develop as an active citizen, contributing constructively to the building of a democratic, non-racist, non-sexist and equitable society." (Foundation Phase: Draft Policy/Phase Document, 1997) Intentionally or unintentionally, Curriculum 2005 appears to be the Department of Education's answer to the need for civic education in South Africa at this stage. The degree to which this need is fulfilled needs to be determined, as well as the shortcomings and where and how it can be improved. For civic education to be successful and effective, broad criteria were identified for the content; the method; the approach; resource materials and teacher education. This study found that there is a fair degree of elements of civic education in Curriculum 2005. There are, however, five main problems that may hinder the effectiveness of civic education. The first is the method. Civic education is not taught as a separate subject, but interwoven in mainly the social learning area. The second obstacle is the content. Thirdly, the majority of teachers who have to teach civic education lack sufficient ability and knowledge, as they did not receive training in this field. A fourth point is the budget constraints. On the one hand time and money is needed to develop a civic education programme, while on the other hand, there are some urgent needs to upgrade and expand physical infrastructure in schools. Lastly, the lack of sufficient and appropriate resource material for teachers, probably poses the single biggest obstacle for the successful implementation of civic education. The Department of Educuation did not provide official textbooks or guidelines, and the sourcing of material for discussion and examples is left to the teacher's own discression. Although there is a clear need for civic education in South Africa, and the intention to fulfil this need seems to be present in Curriculum 2005, the means to achieve this goal are absent. The combination of these five points leads to the conclusion that if the results of civic education could be measured, any form of success and effectiveness in Curriculum 2005, would be nothing more than pure coincidence.

M.Ed. (Educational Management) / Eighteen years after the introduction of several education reform policies, education in South Africa continues to be unequal and complicated. Departmental officials within the Department of Basic Education, educationists and academics have disclosed the trauma and the devastation that the apartheid propagandists’ discriminatory policies have caused. This has forced the current stakeholders to embark on a vigorous campaign to re-evaluate the transformational policies that were designed to hasten progress to erase the inhumane atrocities of the pre-apartheid and apartheid eras. It has therefore become the National Department of Basic Education’s responsibility to change the discriminatory thoughts, attitudes and behaviours of the past. Most important of all, this department has had the responsibility of redirecting resources and investments to those schools that have been victims of the oppressive laws of the past and bring them on par with schools that had benefited from apartheid. The present government therefore has set its attention on correcting the imbalances of the past by focusing on the poorest of the poor and targeting the segments of society in which poverty is the dominant social ill, and by creating equity and social justice. This approach led to the formulation of the National Norms and Standards for School Funding in public schools in 1998 (South Africa, 1998), hereafter referred to as the “NNSSF in public schools”. This policy provides guidelines for the distribution of government resources to “poor schools” in order to align these schools with apartheid institutions of learning. Historically it has been concluded that schools with few or poor resources have difficulty in providing good quality education in comparison with those that had benefited from the apartheid regime. It has therefore become the post-apartheid government’s responsibility to bring the poor and rich schools on par. The state has realised that this can be done through the NNSSF in public schools and using equity and social justice as the catalyst. Through this policy it was the government’s intention to transform schools and redress the inequalities and imbalances of the past. This approach was intended to create an education system that would embrace learner diversity and ensure that all learners were granted equal educational opportunities, irrespective of their race, colour, creed or class. Using the qualitative method, the general aim of this research was to determine the perceptions of stakeholders in six schools with regard to the progress made by the NNSSF in public schools. Matters that have impacted on the implementation of equity and social justice are also discussed in this report. Included is also the identification of the challenges that may have been encountered in the implementation of the NNSSF in public schools. The core focus of the study is on the disparities between the intention and the implementation of the NNSSF in public schools in terms of equity and social justice, and the implications of this policy on the day-to-day functioning and operations of these six public schools. The schools that were evaluated were schools in quintiles 1, 2 and 5. The Education Laws Amendment Act, No. 24 of 2005 provides that the Minister of Education distinguish between five national poverty quintiles. Schools categorised in quintiles 1 and 2 are classified as “no fee” schools and these quintiles receive one hundred per cent state funding to the poorest of the poor schools. The findings of this research should benefit the poor in South Africa, who are black in the majority and have had a long history of discrimination through a system of segregated and unequal educational funding that had been in practice from the time that the South African Party in 1910 and the National Party in 1948 took control (Christie, 1991:55). During this period education for whites was free and compulsory while blacks were deliberately kept illiterate and ignorant for purposes of manual and household labour. It was for that reason that when the government of national unity came into power it ensured that statutory documents such as the Constitution of South Africa and the NNSSF in public schools policy became legislation to protect the democratic processes that are instrumental in redressing the inequities and imbalances of the past. There are still very few studies conducted by scholars based on the implementation of the NNSSF in public schools to achieve equity and social justice. In this study, the researcher looked at the effects of the funding policy on equity and social justice and found out that the gap between the previously disadvantaged (black) and the advantaged (white) is still wide owing to the slow and sometimes ineffective implementation of the NNSSF in public schools in pursuit of equity and social justice.