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Author Shillington, Kevin, author.

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

Publication Info. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Van Rensburg, Patrick.
Educators -- South Africa -- Biography.
Educators.
South Africa.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781776146055 (electronic book)
1776146050 (electronic book)