Challenging violence in South African education: a feminist pedagogical and legal analysis
Doniwen Pietersen,
Dean Collin Langeveldt
Abstract:This study investigates the relevance of violence in the context of South African education, a country which has a history of institutionalised violence against the oppressed, including women. Using a feminist pedagogy as a theoretical lens, violence and its implications for the South African educational system are examined. Scholars such as Freire believe that in order to engage the topic of violence in education, it needs to be framed not only from a physical, but also from a structural and symbolic way sinc… Show more
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