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South Africa

Crain Arthur Soudien is a South African academic and educationist who served as chief executive officer of the Human Sciences Research Council from 2015 to 2021. He is emeritus Professor and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, where he held senior roles related to academic planning, social responsiveness, and institutional transformation.

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Little is known about the nature of South African teachers' work with respect to race.

Youth identity is made within complex social, cultural and political contexts.

The effect of this duality, the paper argues, is to leave the racial common sense imprinted in the South African curriculum untouched.

Understandings of citizenship identity in South Africa rest on the precarious edge of a socially fragmented, essentialist and racist past, and a more humanising, inclusive vision of a new democratic dispensation.

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