People's education and ‘nation building’ for a New South Africa

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ID11904413
AuthorsStephen J Randall (0009-0000-4026-0446, Trades Union Congress, corresponding author), Stephen Randall
Year1993
Volume20
Issue58
Publication date1993-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03056249308704019
OpenAlexW2059629787
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

My purpose in this article is to restate the continuing relevance of ‘people's education’ as a necessary mobilising dynamic in the project of social emancipation in South Africa today. The notion of ‘salvaging’ the concept of people's education implies that it is in process of being discarded, made over into something new having served its provisional utility. I want to suggest that this is indeed how people's education is now being viewed and that this perception is premature, even inappropriate. My concerns are threefold: that the transformatory potential of education is being replaced with a ‘skills’ paradigm; that as a consequence of this and other factors, the mobilising element of people's education is in danger of being usurped by its converse — a demobilising or immobilising of the movement; and — related to this latter vis‐a‐vis the requirements of ‘nation‐building’ in a land despoiled by the ravages of apartheid — that this skills‐based notion of national development is misconstrued

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