Decolonisation in Universities: The Politics of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781776143351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Jonathan Jansen

Opis

Shortly after the statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. What exactly is decolonisation? This book brings together some of the most innovative thinking on curriculum theory to address this important question.

Spis treści

• Introduction and Overview: The Politics of Curriculum – Jonathan D Jansen
• Part 1: The arguments for decolonisation
• Chapter 1 Decolonising universities – Mahmood Mamdani
• Chapter 2 The curriculum case for decolonization – Lesley Le Grange
• Part 2: The politics and problems of decolonisationisation
• Chapter 3 Knowledge, authority and the settled curriculum – Jonathan D Jansen
• Chapter 4 The institutional curriculum, pedagogy and the decolonisation of the South African university – Lis Lange
• Chapter 5 What counts and who belongs? Current debates in decolonising the curriculum – Ursula Hoadley and Jaamia Galant
• Part 3: Doing decolonizationChapter 6 Scaling decolonial consciousness? The reinvention of ‘Africa’ in a neoliberal university – Jess Auerbach, Mlungisi Dlamini and Janice Ndegwa
• Chapter 7 Testing transgressive thinking: The “Learning Through Enlargement” Initiative at UNISA – Crain Soudien
• Chapter 8 Between higher and basic education in South Africa: What does decolonisation mean for teacher education? – Yusuf Sayed and Shireen Motala
• Part 4: Reimaging colonial inheritances
• Chapter 9 Public Art and/as Curricula: Seeking a new role for monuments associated with oppression – Brenda Schmahmann
• Chapter 10 The Plastic University: knowledge, disciplines and the decolonial turn – André Keet
• Chapter 11 Decolonising knowledge: can ubuntu ethics save us from coloniality? – Piet Naude
• Part 5: Decolonisation and the future
• Chapter 12 Future knowledges and their implications for the decolonisation project – Achille Mbembe
• Afterword: Minds via Curricula? – Grant Parker
• References
• List of abbreviations
• Index