Colquhoun, Susan Emily2015-02-132015-02-132015-02-13http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16994This dissertation offers an examination of the concepts of power and authority in order to highlight two conflicting conceptions of human behaviour : one in terms of cause and effect and the other in terms of reasons. Underlying each are divergent implications fcr a notion of change. The concepts of power and authority are critically examined against the background of Western political philosophy. Within the context of South Africa, two influential doctrines, namely Christian National Education and Pedagogics, are Investigated in terms of the notions of power and authority which they endorse.enThesis