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Patrick van Rensburg : rebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biography / Kevin Shillington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shillington, Kevin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa---South Africa--Biography.
- Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2020]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781776146062
- 1776146069
- OCLC:
- 1155955950
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