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1 online resource (xviii, 337 pages) |
| Contents |
Prologue : bearing witness -- Loss and change -- Indirect knowledge -- Sure foundations -- Bitter knowledge -- Kollegas! (Colleagues!) : the knowledge of good and evil -- Knowledge in the blood -- Mending broken lines -- Meet the parents -- Teaching to disrupt |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of white South African students--how they remember and enact an Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of Mandela's release from prison, hold firm views about a past they never lived, rigid ideas about black people, and fatalistic thoughts about the future? Jonathan Jansen, the first black dean of education at the historically white University of Pretoria, was dogged by this question during his tenure, and Knowledge in the Blood seeks to answer it. Jansen offers an intimate look at the effects of social and political change after Apartheid as white students first experience learning and living alongside black students. He reveals the novel role pedagogical interventions played in confronting the past, as well as critical theory's limits in dealing with conflict in a world where formerly clear-cut notions of victims and perpetrators are blurred. While Jansen originally set out simply to convey a story of how white students changed under the leadership of a diverse group of senior academics, Knowledge in the Blood ultimately became an unexpected account of how these students in turn changed him. The impact of this book's unique, wide-ranging insights in dealing with racial and ethnic divisions will be felt far beyond the borders of South Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-324) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
University of Pretoria -- Administration
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University of Pretoria |
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Pretoria / University of Pretoria. |
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College integration -- South Africa
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Educational change -- South Africa
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Afrikaner students -- South Africa -- Attitudes
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College students, White -- South Africa -- Attitudes
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Racism in higher education -- South Africa
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Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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College integration
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Educational change
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Management
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Post-apartheid era
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Race relations
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Racism in higher education
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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South Africa -- Race relations.
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804771160 |
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0804771162 |
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