Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa: Perspectives from Hybrid Knowledge Production

ISBN-13: 9780367360603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 244 str.

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis; Irina Turner; Abraham Brahima

Opis

The book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and "indigenous" knowledge in academic research, teaching and learning programmes and beyond.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. The Emergence of Decolonisation Debates in African Higher Education: A Historical Perspective;  2. An Integrated Approach towards Decolonising Higher Education: A Perspective from Anthropology;  3. Rethinking Linguistics at Nelson Mandela University: Emerging Decolonial Insights;  4. ‘What is the Point of Studying Africa in Europe?’ A Micro-ethnographic Study of Decolonising African Studies through International Post-graduates in Germany;  5. The Relationality of Knowledge and Post-colonial Endeavours – Analyzing the Definition, Emergence and Trading of Knowledge(s) from a Network Theory Perspective;  6. Conceptual Decolonisation, Endogenous Knowledge and Translation;  7. Linguistic Coexistence and Controversy in Algerian Higher Education: From Colonialisation via the Arabisation Movement to the Adoption of Hybridity;  8. Class and Literature: Cross-cutting Theorisations and Practices of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Mao Zedong in Education;  9. "Borrowed" Languages in Africa: a Reflection on the Reader–Writer Imaginary;  10. Must Decolonisation Occur on an Island? The Role of Occupation in Developing Future Visions within the #RhodesMustFall Movement;  11. Decolonisation of Knowledge on Land Governance;  Epilogue: A Long Way Towards a Decolonial Future in African Higher Education