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Author Jansen, Jonathan

Title Decolonisation in Universities : the Politics of Knowledge
Published Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction and Overview. Making Sense of Decolonisation in Universities; Part 1: The Arguments for Decolonisation; Chapter 1. Decolonising Universities; Chapter 2. The Curriculum Case for Decolonisation; Part 2: The Politics and Problems of Decolonisation; Chapter 3. On the Politics of Decolonisation: Knowledge, Authority and the Settled Curriculum; Chapter 4. The Institutional Curriculum, Pedagogy and the Decolonisation of the South African University
Chapter 5. What Counts and Who Belongs? Current Debates in Decolonising the CurriculumPart 3: Doing Decolonisation; Chapter 6. Scaling Decolonial Consciousness? The Rei-nvention of 'Africa' in a Neoliberal University; Chapter 7. Testing Transgressive Thinking: The 'Learning Through Enlargement' Initiative at UNISA; Chapter 8. Between Higher and Basic Education in South Africa: What Does Decolonisation Mean for Teacher Education?; Part 4: Reimaging Colonial Inheritances; Chapter 9. Public Art and/as Curricula: Seeking a New Role for Monuments Associated with Oppression
Chapter 10. The Plastic University: Knowledge, Disciplines and the Decolonial TurnChapter 11. Decolonising Knowledge: Can Ubuntu Ethics Save Us from Coloniality? (Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi?); Chapter 12. Future Knowledges and Their Implications for the Decolonisation Project; Afterword. Decolonising Minds via Curricula?; Contributors; Index
Summary What exactly is decolonisation? This volume brings together the most innovative thinking on curriculum theory to address an urgent question for scholars and teachers alike. Critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan representing a variety of concerns? What is the colonial legacy and can it be undone?
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Subject Decolonization.
Education, Higher.
higher education.
Colonial influence.
Decolonization.
Education, Higher.
SUBJECT Africa -- Colonial influence
Subject Africa.
Form Electronic book
Author Mbembe, Achille
Keet, André
Schmahmann, Brenda
Soudien, Crain
Galant, Jaamia
Auerbach, Jess
Le Grange, Lesley
Lange, Lis
Mamdani, Mahmood
ISBN 9781776143368
1776143361
9781776143375
177614337X