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Christian National Education (CNE) and People’s Education (PE): historical perspectives and some broad common grounds.

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Van Eeden, Elize S
Vermeulen, L M

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Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus

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A recognition of the legitimate origins of the idea of Christian-National Education in a people’s struggle for freedom does not mean endorsing the idea as such. Especially in its later development, it seems that the Christian-National idea has taken on wholly unacceptable features…For those who identify with the people’s education movement, the Christian-National idea will be a symbol of the system of oppression against which they now struggle so that it will be difficult for them to appreciate its origins in an earlier struggle against oppression that closely parallels their own...

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Van Eeden, E.S. & Vermeulen, L.M. 2005. Christian National Education (CNE) and People’s Education (PE): historical perspectives and some broad common grounds. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 50:177-205, Nov. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969]

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