Book review: Working between the folds

School leaders reimagining school life

Abstract

South Africa’s unpleasant history of apartheid is common knowledge. The apartheid system segregated communities along racial lines and promoted various forms of discrimination (Pellicer & Ranchhod, 2023). This system was revoked in 1994 when the country became a democratic republic. During the dawn of democracy, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, 108 of 1996, the country's supreme law, was promulgated to establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights (RSA, 1996). To scaffold the principles and values enshrined in the Constitution, several progressive legislative acts and policies were formalised across sectors, including schooling. This book, edited by Ramrathan et al. (2021), focuses on the schooling sector and offers a retrospective view of the sector’s progression concerning education reform and reimagining possibilities for the sector.