Afterword
Date
2012
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SUN MeDIA
Abstract
Earlier this year I attended a conference in Götenburg, Sweden, on integrating
language teaching into the disciplines – nothing overtly to do
with social justice or the public good. One evening after a long and
tiring day mulling over the conference proceedings, a group of conference
goers, including two from South Africa, one from Spain and one from the
United States, settled down for a drink and a (hopefully) frivolous conversation.
The conversation soon became serious. We talked about South Africa
and apartheid and the past; about Spain and its right-wing dictatorship; and
about the United States and resistance to the Vietnam war. Each of us expressed
our strong feelings about the injustices in our own countries that we
had to endure and grapple with somehow. We found ourselves comparing our
attitudes towards these ‘pasts’ with those of the younger generation that had
been born after these periods of extreme injustice. Some of our children or
students were interested in what we had to say, but sometimes they resisted
this ‘harping on’ about the past. In South Africa the term ‘born frees’ has been
coined to discuss the lives of young people born since apartheid ended.
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CITATION: Leibowitz, B. 2012. Afterword, in B. Leibowitz (ed.). Higher Education for the Public Good: Views from the South. Stellenbosch: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. 217-221. doi:10.18820/9781928357056/17.
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Keywords
Higher education and the public good, Social justice, Common good -- South Africa, Born frees -- South Africa, Oppressive regimes, Government, Resistence to -- 20th century, Citizenship -- Study and teaching
Citation
Leibowitz, B. 2012. Afterword, in B. Leibowitz (ed.). Higher Education for the Public Good: Views from the South. Stellenbosch: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. 217-221. doi:10.18820/9781928357056/17.