Milieu deprivation and its implications for education in the Republic of South Africa.
Due to milieu deficiencies and psychosocial handicaps, some groups are caught in a spiral of poverty and experience serious obstruction to optimal self-actualization and to the achievement of a satisfactory quality of life. This article describes the problem of educating milieu-deprived students in the Republic of South Africa, as well as the implications for educational reform.
Pretorius
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Department of Psycho- and Sociopedagogics, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa.
le Roux
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D004493:Education; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D013019:South Africa