The intercultural culture of schools: Problems and challenges for a post-apartheid South Africa

To achieve optimal balance between cultural integration, differentiation, equity, and development, this article argues that an "intercultural culture" must be established in South Africa's public schools. This will demand critical awareness of interculturalism and informed commitment by educators and learners to prevent schools, especially the formerly White schools,from continuing to embody skewed values and practices that, in a new political dispensation, enshrine rather than redress inequity. It will also require stakeholders to summon the political and educational will to transform schools through changing and strengthening their institutional cultures and not viewing efforts to promote interculturalism as optional add-ons.