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    'n Holistiese benadering tot opvoeding en onderwys : 'n teoretiese ondersoek na die moontlikhede vir die transformasie van opvoeding en onderwys in 'n veranderende Suid-Afrika
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1995-03) Adam, Hoosain; Carl, E. A.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Education Policy Studies.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The development in economics, science and technology, and politics characterises our world today. Nations have become interdependent to a degree never known before. Isolation of anyone nation from the world community has become unthinkable. This universal interdependence is also a reality on a national level amongst the people of the same country. What does the interdependence mean to education? Education must be regarded not as a series of individual compartments of learning and teaching but as a whole unit - as total preparation for life for humanity at all levels. This could be achieved by approaching education from a holistic perspective. Holism is a comprehensive world view which produces order and coherenc;e not only among the most recent discoveries in the empirical sciences, but also in aesthetics and morals. This study identifies the need for South Africa to establish an education system which emphasised unity and which aims to develop the full potential of all South Mricans. The persons involved in education should be regarded as integrated human beings. The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual domain should be regarded as integrated aspects of the whole person. In keeping with this it is concluded that the whole education system needs to change from a segregated and fragmented system to an integrated and united system in order to meet the needs and expectations of the whole South African population. The apartheid education system was based on the traditional authoritarian approach to education and is to a huge extent the antithesis of a holistic approach to education. This system is described as well as the reaction of those who regarded themselves as victims of the system. The philosophy underpinning the apartheid system is also considered and compared with the philosophy of holism. In order to stay abreast of the dynamic changes that are occurring in South Africa and the world at large it is suggested that a new education system should follow a futuristic approach to education - knowledge that may dominate education today, may become obsolete tomorrow.