Decolonising African Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Practitioner Perspectives from Across the Continent
Redaktion: Knaus, Christopher B.; Seroto, Johannes; Mino, Takako

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Across the African continent, college student activists have long fought to decolonise African institutions. Reflecting ongoing Western colonisation, however, Indigenous African languages, thought, and structures remain excluded from African universities. Such universities remain steeped in Eurocentric modes of knowing, teaching, researching, and communicating. Students are rarely afforded the opportunity to learn about the wealth of knowledge and sustainable wisdom that was and is generated by their own home communities. Such localised Indigenous African perspectives are critical in a world committed to anti-Black racism, capitalist materialism, and global destruction.

This book thus clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation, offering hope from universities across the continent. Writers are university administrators and faculty who directly challenge contemporary colonial education, exploring tangible ways to decolonise structures, curricula, pedagogy, research, and community relationships. Ultimately, this book moves beyond structural transformation to call for a global commitment to develop Indigenous African-led systems of higher education that foster multilingual communities, local knowledges, and localised approaches to global problems. In shifting from a Western-centric lens to multifaceted African-centrism, the authors reclaim decoloniality from co-optation, repositioning African intellectualism at the core of global higher education to sustain an Ubuntu-based humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000577754
• Artikelnr.: 63713072

Autorenporträt

Christopher B. Knaus is a global critical race practitioner focused on collaborative disruption of anti-Black education and the centring of Black and Indigenous affirming systems. Dr. Knaus serves as a Professor of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. Takako Mino is a scholar-practitioner, who studies and strives to actualise a humanising education. Dr. Mino serves as an adjunct lecturer at Ashesi University in Ghana and co-founder of upcoming Musizi University in Uganda. Johannes Seroto is a research practitioner in Indigenous knowledge systems, the history of South African education, and colonial, post-colonial, and decolonisation studies. Dr. Seroto serves as a Professor of the History of Education at the University of South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

One: Decolonising Higher Education: Definitions
Conceptualisations
Epistemologies
Two: Centring African Knowledges to Decolonise Higher Education
Three: Curriculum Transformation to Decolonise African Higher Education
Four: Removing and Recentring: Student Activist Perceptions of Curricular Decolonisation
Five: Localising Knowledge Systems
Six: Reclaiming Indigenous Epistemes: Entenga Drums Revival at Kyambogo University
Seven: On Language
Coloniality
and Resistance: A Conversation between Abdirachid Ismail and Christopher B. Knaus
Eight: (De)Colonising Physical Education in Ghana
Nine: The Re-assimilation of Indigeneity in Education: A Long-term Journey