Possibilities and Complexities of Decolonising Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Praxis

ISBN-13: 9781032447629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 254 str.

Hayes, Aneta

Opis

This book highlights the possibilities and complexities of putting decolonial theory to work in higher education in Northern and Southern contexts across the globe. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Teaching in Higher Education.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation  3. From silence to ‘strategic advancement’: institutional responses to ‘decolonising’ in higher education in England  4. Approaching global education development with a decolonial lens: teachers’ reflections  5. Refusal as affective and pedagogical practice in higher education decolonization: a modest proposal  6. Understanding the challenges entailed in decolonising a Higher Education institution: an organisational case study of a research-intensive South African university  7. ‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison’: the significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education  8. Epistemic decolonisation in reconstituting higher education pedagogy in South Africa: the student perspective  9. Disrupting curricula and pedagogies in Latin American universities: six criteria for decolonising the university  10. Indigenizing Engineering education in Canada: critically considered  11. Holding space for an Aboriginal approach towards Curriculum Reconciliation in an Australian university  12. A Calle decolonial hack: Afro-Latin theorizing of Philadelphia’s spaces of learning and resistance  13. Distilling pedagogies of critical water studies  14. Decolonising while white: confronting race in a South African classroom  15. Navigating student resistance towards decolonizing curriculum and pedagogy (DCP): a temporal proposal  16. Four ‘moments’ of intercultural encountering