Author: Kevin Shillington
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN: 1776146085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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This sensitive and compelling biography of Patrick van Rensburg does justice to a giant of a man, controversial throughout his life but undeniably a hero Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as 'a very ordinary South African family that believed in the virtue of racism', Patrick van Rensburg was to become a rebel with several causes. In his case they were, initially, the fight against apartheid and, later, a unique contribution to education, which, as he would tell his audience when he accepted the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, 'as I saw it then, was a necessary tool of development'. Exiled from South Africa because of his involvement in the boycott campaign in London that gave birth to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Van Rensburg went to Serowe in Botswana (then Bechuanaland), where he founded co-operatives, provided vocational training and was one of the earliest people to espouse the discipline of development studies. Perhaps his best-known legacies were Swaneng Hill School, in which he involved his pupils in building their school, running it, providing their own food and making their own equipment and furniture, and ’brigades’ to provide an educational home for primary school 'dropouts' through a curriculum that combined theory and practice, mental and manual labour. This sensitive and compelling biography does justice to a giant of a man, controversial throughout his life but undeniably a hero.
Author: Patrick Van Rensburg
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Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Author: Andrew Kirk Henry Boyd
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Languages : en
Pages : 133
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Author: Bobana Badisang
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ISBN: 9789991271620
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Andrew Kirk Henry Boyd
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Languages : en
Pages : 133
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Author: Patrick Van Rensburg
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Category : Africa del Sur
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Author: Patrick Van Rensburg
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Category : Alternative education
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Author: Patrick Van Rensburg
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Personal account of an experimentaleducational reform programme of secondary education and vocational training undertaken in Botswana in 1962 - describes a series of innovations such as the establishment of training brigades for primary school leavers unaccommodated by the small secondary school system, and asserts that secondary education should be a focal point of economic development and that educational policies should be coordinated with programmes for the creation of relevant employment opportunities. Illustrations.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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