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A COMPARITIVE EDUCATIONAL VIEW ON SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION by H.J.S. STONE Orientation In a personal letter a prominent academic of the Netherlands recently asked a South African educationist "hoe het komt dat in Zuid-Afrika zo'n grote belangstelling voor de pedagogiek bestaat". He continued: "Ik geloof niet dat er een land in de wereid aan te wijzen is waar naar verhouding zoveel op pedagigisch gebied gebeurt." He asked then: "Hangt dit misschien samen met de nog tamelijk patriarch ale structuur van de samenleving of komt het vooral omdat u in Zuid-Afrika zo'n geweldig grote opvoedkundige taak hebt?" (Kilian, 1977, p. 54) (To sum up: Does South Africa's abundance of activity in the field of education and pedagogics relate in one way or another to the immensely great educational task it has?) The answer is indisputable 'yes'! for in the under developed Africa education, formal education, is an existential need. Concepts such as education, teaching, training, development - at any rate as regards the non-Western sections of the population - are in Africa related to a considerable backlog, compared with the West, which must be erased. Hence the great emphasis on the importance of formal education, pedagogics and andragogics. The
Philosophia Reformata – Brill
Published: Feb 20, 1980
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