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