R.O. Dudley: Teacher, Educator and Political Dissenter (1924–2009)
Date
2010-10
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Abstract
In education and anti-racist politics in South Africa’s Western Cape region, Richard (Dick or R.O.)
Dudley was an exceptionally influential intellectual figure who was revered by those who knew him
and enjoyed legendary status among many others who had simply heard of his towering reputation. In
the school classroom, far more than just a gifted teacher, he was a probing and challenging educationist
in the deepest philosophical sense. Likewise, in his left-wing political activism and caustic opposition
to segregation and apartheid, Dudley was a true radical nonconformist, dismissing the politics of
liberalism, African nationalism and Communism as either tepidly reformist, vacuously populist or
slavishly Stalinist.
Description
The original publication is available at http://www.sajs.co.za/
Keywords
Dudley, Education, Anti-racist, Apartheid
Citation
Nasson, B. 2010. R.O. Dudley: Teacher, Educator and Political Dissenter (1924–2009). South African Journal of Science, 106(9/10), doi: 10.4102/sajs.v106i9/10.419