The Role of Radical Pedagogy in the South African Students Organisation and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, 1968–1973
| Autor: | Leigh-Ann Naidoo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Education as Change. 19:112-132 |
| ISSN: | 1947-9417 1682-3206 |
| Popis: | Radical pedagogical ideals and practices were at the heart of the South African Students Organisation (SASO), the formation that birthed the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) at the height of the internal anti-apartheid struggle in the 1970s. This paper sets out to illuminate and examine the educational agenda of SASO and the early BCM by analysing the rich archive of SASO, including the organisation's minutes, reports, policy documents, and newsletter, as well as their engagement with the ideas of the radical Brazilian educationalist, Paulo Freire. This article investigates a central tension in the student-led BCM around the place and nature of education in the movement. The central tension, I argue, was between the critical educational project of transforming consciousness and the political education project of directing black people's energies against the white state. Despite their intersection, they were, I argue, different responses to the oppressive apartheid context. The BCM understood the... |
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