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Southern African Rurality in Higher Education
Prior learning in rural areas
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Few educational resources and lack of teachers in rural
schools.
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Broader knowledge and skills, working life and responsibilities:
‘…our culture can ground us and groom us into
becoming better people … there is a thing that you will
never learn at school…’ (discussion group, R.U., 2 May
2017, F.)
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Huge determination by co-researchers to overcome
challenges:
‘...because of a lack of teachers you had to study for
yourself because at the end of the day you knew that
you had to pass … you had to take the responsibility of
learning for yourself...’ (discussion group, R.U., 2 May
2017, F.)