Knowledge in the blood : confronting race and the apartheid past / / Jonathan D. Jansen

• Autore: Jansen Jonathan D
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif. : , : Stanford University Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 pages)
• Disciplina: 378.682270893936
• Soggetto topico: Afrikaner students - South Africa - Attitudes; College integration - South Africa; College students, White - South Africa - Attitudes; Educational change - South Africa; Post-apartheid era - South Africa; Racism in higher education - South Africa
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Glossary of Afrikaans Words, Names, and Phrases""; ""Prologue: Bearing Witness""; ""1. Loss and Change""; ""2. Indirect Knowledge""; ""3. Sure Foundations""; ""4. Bitter Knowledge""; ""5. Kollegas! (Colleagues!)""; ""6. Knowledge in the Blood""; ""7. Mending Broken Lines""; ""8. Meet the Parents""; ""9. Teaching to Disrupt""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowledge in the blood
• ISBN: 0-8047-7116-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790365503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II