Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers

Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa
Herausgeber: Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile; Blackie, Margaret A. L.; Adendorff, Hanelie

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Produktbeschreibung

Decolonizing Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonizing education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South Africa higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Legitimation Code Theory
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9780367618841
• ISBN-10: 0367618842
• Artikelnr.: 69789979

Autorenporträt

Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo is a senior lecturer in Curriculum Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research interests include theorising transformation in the global South, decolonisation, student movements and epistemological access in curricula. Hanelie Adendorff is a senior advisor in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has a PhD in Chemistry but has been working in professional development since 2002. Margaret A.L. Blackie is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Since starting her independent career she has attempted to hold together research interests in both synthetic organic chemistry and education research. Aslam Fataar is currently Research and Development Professor in Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His expertise includes sociology of education and education policy. He has been awarded several medals of honour for contributions to South African education and prizes for his publications. Paul Maluleka is a South African scholar and Lecturer in History of Education and History Education at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg - South Africa. His interests centre around themes of education decolonisation, de/coloniality and Africanisation in the South African academe and basic education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing 'decolonising knowledge and knowers' 2. Pursuing decolonial
knowledge-building in South African higher education 3. Building a
'decolonial knower': Contestations in the humanities 4. Decolonising the
university: Some thoughts on recontextualising knowledge 5. Towards a
decolonized school history curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa
through enacting Legitimation Code Theory 6. Decolonization and science
education: What is at stake? 7. A decolonial science education: How do we
move forward?