Knowledge in the Blood

by Jansen, Jonathan D.

• ISBN13: 9780804761956
• ISBN10: 0804761957
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-07
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This book tells the story of white South African studentshow 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, andKnowledge in the Bloodseeks 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 Bloodultimately 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Glossary of Afrikaans Words, Names, and Phrases	p. xv
Prologue Bearing Witness	p. 1
Loss and Change	p. 24
Indirect Knowledge	p. 51
Sure Foundations	p. 83
Bitter Knowledge	p. 114
Kollegas! (Colleagues!)	p. 145
Knowledge in the Blood	p. 170
Mending Broken Lines	p. 201
Meet the Parents	p. 232
Teaching to Disrupt	p. 255
Notes	p. 282
References	p. 311
Index	p. 325
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