This paper provides insight into how the discourse of the New Unity Movement (NUM) can potentially contribute to educational development in the context of South Africa’s social inequality. It describes the political lens of the NUM and how its discourse countered the oppressive forces of a capitalist-apartheid system, in a struggle for an alternative world order. NUM’s discourse is posited as a progressive voice whose educational analysis and sound pedagogic principles could be recalled towards transforming education in South Africa today. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is applied to recontextualise the societal role of teachers and the role of critique in what Fairclough (2010) describes as evaluating society and possible ways to change it. The analysis of the NUM’s writing also draws on Gramsci’s (1971) concept of hegemony that enables further insight into cultivating an educational philosophy that is emancipatory.

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新统一运动的话语：回顾进步的声音

本文深入探讨了新团结运动（NUM）的话语如何在南非社会不平等的背景下可能对教育发展做出贡献。它描述了NUM的政治视角，以及它的论述如何与资本主义种族隔离制度的压迫力量抗衡，以争取替代的世界秩序。NUM的话语被认为是一种进步的声音，其教育分析和合理的教学原则可以被召回，以改变当今南非的教育。批判性话语分析（CDA）用于重新界定教师的社会角色和Fairclough（2010）所描述的评价社会以及改变社会的可能方式的批评作用。