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Patrick van Rensburg : rebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biography.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781776146055
  • 1776146050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 370.1 23
LOC classification:
  • LB880.V36
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Origins and Identity in South Africa -- 2 An Anglophone South African, 1936-1948 -- 3 The Making of an Afrikaner, 1949-1953 -- 4 Diplomat and Rebel, 1953-1957 -- 5 Anti-Apartheid Activist, 1957-1959 -- 6 Boycott, 1959-1960 -- 7 Into Exile, 1960-1961 -- 8 Return to Africa, 1961-1962 -- 9 The Founding of Swaneng Hill School, 1962-1963 -- 10 Challenging 'The Ladder to Privilege', 1963-1965
11 The Alternative Educationist, 1965-1967 -- 12 Expansion and Replication, 1967-1969 -- 13 Time of Crisis, 1969-1971 -- 14 Education with Production, the 1970s -- 15 Foundation for Education with Production and Spreading the Word, the 1980s -- 16 Education with Production and South Africa, the 1990s -- 17 Return to Botswana -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary: This sensitive, compelling biography is a revealing portrait of Patrick van Rensburg, a controversial but heroic anti-apartheid activist and radical educationist whose democratic, anti-elitist vision and energetic pursuit of inclusive, developmental and practical education received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Origins and Identity in South Africa -- 2 An Anglophone South African, 1936-1948 -- 3 The Making of an Afrikaner, 1949-1953 -- 4 Diplomat and Rebel, 1953-1957 -- 5 Anti-Apartheid Activist, 1957-1959 -- 6 Boycott, 1959-1960 -- 7 Into Exile, 1960-1961 -- 8 Return to Africa, 1961-1962 -- 9 The Founding of Swaneng Hill School, 1962-1963 -- 10 Challenging 'The Ladder to Privilege', 1963-1965

11 The Alternative Educationist, 1965-1967 -- 12 Expansion and Replication, 1967-1969 -- 13 Time of Crisis, 1969-1971 -- 14 Education with Production, the 1970s -- 15 Foundation for Education with Production and Spreading the Word, the 1980s -- 16 Education with Production and South Africa, the 1990s -- 17 Return to Botswana -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

This sensitive, compelling biography is a revealing portrait of Patrick van Rensburg, a controversial but heroic anti-apartheid activist and radical educationist whose democratic, anti-elitist vision and energetic pursuit of inclusive, developmental and practical education received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981.

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