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Knowledge in the Blood - Jonathan D. Jansen

Knowledge in the Blood

Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past
Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2009
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-6195-6 (ISBN)
CHF 38,35 inkl. MwSt
Knowledge in the Blood offers a firsthand account, from the first black Dean of a historically white university, of how white South African students learn and confront the Apartheid past, and how this knowledge transforms students and teacher alike.
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.

Jonathan D. Jansen is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand and Visiting Fellow at the National Research Foundation, both in South Africa. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria. His latest co-authored book is Diversity High: Class, Color, Character and Culture in a South African High School.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.4.2009
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8047-6195-7 / 0804761957
ISBN-13 978-0-8047-6195-6 / 9780804761956
Zustand Neuware
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