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Contesting Ideas of a University: The Case of South Africa

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This article portrays four historically evolved ideas of a university, as they have developed in the South African context, namely the British liberal-humanistic education idea, the Afrikaner idea of an ethnically-oriented developmental university, the idea of an African university, and the idea of a university proclaimed by neo-liberal economics. The global significance of this contest, as it plays out itself on South African soil, is noted

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Wolhuter, C.C. & Mushaandja, J.:2015. Contesting Ideas of a University: The Case of South Africa. Humanities, 4, 212-223.

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