A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003

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dc.contributor.advisorSoudien, Crainen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorSiebörger, Roben_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHendricks, Paul Rossen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-08T06:49:42Z
dc.date.available2017-08-08T06:49:42Z
dc.date.issued2010en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the Teachers' League of South Africa's (TLSA, League or Teachers' League) ideas and practice of non-collaboration. It seeks to ascertain whether these ideas and practices continued after the organisation merged with several public sector unions in the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) at the end of the last century. The thesis tracks the emergence and changing dynamics of the TLSA from the early decades of the twentieth century, as it developed and grew in the Western Cape, a region that was its nerve centre and where it was most active. There is a focus on the endeavours of the League to adapt and grow during the political and educational tumult of the 1990s, a period characterised by negotiations, reconciliatory and consensual politics that centred on nation building, and which was unreceptive if not clearly hostile to the organisation's non-collaborationist stance. The thesis employs an historical approach to contextualise the development of the League's non-collaborationism, and to elucidate the impact of South Africa's changing political, economic and educational landscape on the organisation. Extensive interviews were conducted, therewith giving a voice to the writing of history from below, embracing the experiences and perceptions of League members and the teacher activists who interacted with them before, but more so during and even beyond the 1990s. Documentary material of the TLSA and its umbrella body, the Unity Movement, dating back to the 1940s, provides the key primary sources for the study, while secondary information on the development of South Africa's political economy and the liberation movement offers valuable insights and alternative perspectives on the TLSA and Unity Movement. The thesis endorses the notion that appearances are at times intermingled with the opposite of what is being perceived, and thus challenges assumptions that the League's policy of non-collaboration was fixed and timeless. Instead, the thesis seeks to uncover the incongruities, nuances and complexity of this distinctive quality of the organisation, in an attempt finally, to elucidate its transformative potential in the present period.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHendricks, P. R. (2010). <i>A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24857en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHendricks, Paul Ross. <i>"A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24857en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHendricks, P. 2010. A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Hendricks, Paul Ross AB - This thesis investigates the Teachers' League of South Africa's (TLSA, League or Teachers' League) ideas and practice of non-collaboration. It seeks to ascertain whether these ideas and practices continued after the organisation merged with several public sector unions in the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) at the end of the last century. The thesis tracks the emergence and changing dynamics of the TLSA from the early decades of the twentieth century, as it developed and grew in the Western Cape, a region that was its nerve centre and where it was most active. There is a focus on the endeavours of the League to adapt and grow during the political and educational tumult of the 1990s, a period characterised by negotiations, reconciliatory and consensual politics that centred on nation building, and which was unreceptive if not clearly hostile to the organisation's non-collaborationist stance. The thesis employs an historical approach to contextualise the development of the League's non-collaborationism, and to elucidate the impact of South Africa's changing political, economic and educational landscape on the organisation. Extensive interviews were conducted, therewith giving a voice to the writing of history from below, embracing the experiences and perceptions of League members and the teacher activists who interacted with them before, but more so during and even beyond the 1990s. Documentary material of the TLSA and its umbrella body, the Unity Movement, dating back to the 1940s, provides the key primary sources for the study, while secondary information on the development of South Africa's political economy and the liberation movement offers valuable insights and alternative perspectives on the TLSA and Unity Movement. The thesis endorses the notion that appearances are at times intermingled with the opposite of what is being perceived, and thus challenges assumptions that the League's policy of non-collaboration was fixed and timeless. Instead, the thesis seeks to uncover the incongruities, nuances and complexity of this distinctive quality of the organisation, in an attempt finally, to elucidate its transformative potential in the present period. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003 TI - A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24857 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/24857
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHendricks PR. A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24857en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Educationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEducationen_ZA
dc.subject.otherliberation politicsen_ZA
dc.subject.otherpublic sector unionsen_ZA
dc.titleA principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003en_ZA
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