HOME-SCHOOL COMMUNICATION IN A RURAL SOUTH AFRICAN VILLAGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION

From: International Education | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Bachman, Lauren; Klahr, Jessica; Meza, Natali; Walters, Meghan; Tucker, Catherine | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

"We naturally associate... democracy with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity for thought behind it is only chaos" (Dewey, 1903/2005).

"Education is the great engine of personal development... it is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another" (Mandela, 1994, p. 166).

Since the new government's inception in 1994, South Africans have been searching for ways to begin to heal their n...

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