Decolonising Knowledge And Knowers

Author : Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo,Hanelie Adendorff,Margaret A.L. Blackie,Aslam Fataar,Paul Maluleka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000597783

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Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers by Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo,Hanelie Adendorff,Margaret A.L. Blackie,Aslam Fataar,Paul Maluleka Pdf

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education. Galvanised by #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall student protests, South Africa has seen particularly intense and broad social engagement with debates over decolonising universities. However, much of this debate has been consumed with definitions and meanings. In contrast, Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers shows how conceptual tools, specifically from Legitimation Code Theory, can be enacted in research and teaching to meaningfully work towards productive decolonisation. Each chapter addresses a key issue in contemporary debates in South African higher education and show how practices concerning knowledge and knowers are playing a role, drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, praxis, and interdisciplinary research.

Author : Daniel Bendix,Franziska Müller,Aram Ziai
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786613608

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Beyond the Master's Tools? by Daniel Bendix,Franziska Müller,Aram Ziai Pdf

This book provides a compendium of strategies for decolonizing global knowledge orders, research methodology and teaching in the social sciences. The volume presents recent work on epistemological critique informed by postcolonial thought, and outlines strategies for actively decolonizing social science methodology and learning/teaching environments that will be of great utility to IR and other academic fields that examine global order. The volume focuses on the decolonization of intellectual history in the social sciences, followed by contributions on social science methodology and lastly more practical suggestions for educational/didactical approaches in academic teaching. The book is not confined to the classical format of research articles but moves beyond such boundaries by bringing in spoken word and interviews with scholar-activists. Overall this volume enables researchers to practice a reflexive and situated knowledge production more suitable to confronting present-day global predicaments. The perspectives mobilise a constructive critique, but also allow for a reconstruction of methodologies and methods in ways that open up new lenses, new archives of knowledges and reconsider the who, the how and the what of the craft of social science research into global order.

Author : Frédérique Apffel-Marglin,Stephen A. Marglin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191583964

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Decolonizing Knowledge by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin,Stephen A. Marglin Pdf

Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word `development' and its cognates `underdevelopment' and `developing' confidently mark the `first' world's as the future of the `third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of modern Western view of knowledge is a contemporary form of colonialism. The authors - covering topics as diverse as the theory of knowledge underlying the work of John Maynard Keynes, what the renowned British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane was looking for when he migrated to India, the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.

Author : Jonathan Jansen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781776143375

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Decolonisation in Universities by Jonathan Jansen Pdf

In this collection of case studies and stories from the field, South African scholars come together to trade stories on how to decolonise the university Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked: What exactly is decolonisation? This edited volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address this important question. In the process, several critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What is the colonial legacy with respect to curriculum and can it be undone? How is the project of curriculum decolonisation similar to or different from the quest for postcolonial knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of knowledge? What does decolonisation mean in a digital age where relationships between knowledge and power are shifting? The book combines strong conceptual analyses with novel case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. Such a comparative perspective enables reasonable judgements to be made about the prospects for institutional take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities.

Author : Jonathan Jansen,Jess Auerbach
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031319136

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The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences by Jonathan Jansen,Jess Auerbach Pdf

In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields---including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the vaccine sciences---the book demonstrates the troubled histories and the enduring effects of imperial knowledge decades since the end of colonial rule and apartheid. This is a valuable text on the politics of the biomedical sciences written from the perspective of the African continent, and at the same time it revisits knowledge/power relationships between the majority (“global South”) and minority (“global north”) words in a historical perspective and in their contemporary expression in the disciplines. The immediate benefit is a reference resource for medical science researchers, and a teaching text for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book is further composed as an accessible, readable and interesting text on politics and medicine in Africa for the discerning lay reader.

Author : Meghan Stacey,Nicole Mockler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003848370

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Analysing Education Policy by Meghan Stacey,Nicole Mockler Pdf

Analysing Education Policy: Theory and Method provides a comprehensive overview of key approaches in critical education policy research. With chapters from internationally recognised and established scholars in the field, this book provides an authoritative account of how different questions may be approached and answered. Part 1 features chapters focused on text-based approaches to analysis, including critical discourse analysis, thinking with Foucault, Indigenist Policy Analysis, media analysis, the analysis of promotional texts in education, and the analysis of online networks. Part 2 features chapters focused on network ethnography, actor-network theory, materiality in policy, Institutional Ethnography, decolonising approaches to curriculum policy, working with children and young people, and working with education policy elites. These chapters are supported by an introduction to each section, as well as an overall introduction and conclusion chapter from the editors, drawing together key themes and ongoing considerations for the field. Critical education policy analysis takes many different forms, each of which works with distinctly different questions and fulfils different purposes. This book is the first to clearly map current common and influential approaches to answering these questions, providing important guidance for both new and established researchers.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316511237

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Decolonizing African Knowledge by Toyin Falola Pdf

Uses textual and visual materials on the 'Self' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.

Author : R. Sooryamoorthy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031573941

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African Societies by R. Sooryamoorthy Pdf

Author : Prof Vuyisile Msila
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Africans
ISBN : 1869226739

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Decolonising Knowledge for Africa's Renewal by Prof Vuyisile Msila Pdf

Author : Peter Taylor,Crystal Tremblay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781189641

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Decolonising Knowledge for Development in the Covid-19 Era by Peter Taylor,Crystal Tremblay Pdf

Author : Mishack T. Gumbo,P. John Williams
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819913961

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Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems by Mishack T. Gumbo,P. John Williams Pdf

There has been a growing interest in indigenous knowledge systems and research. This interest has been mainly triggered by the need to decolonize education as a response to the colonial onslaught on indigenous knowledge and people. Research has, however, concentrated on the generality of the indigenous knowledge system rather than on its related dimensions. One area that has suffered a lack of attention is indigenous conceptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) despite the unquestionable evidence of STEM in indigenous contexts. Most STEM is presented by colonial establishments and representations, especially in developed/modern/urban contexts, which portray STEM as a colonial construct. This book focuses on indigenous technological knowledge systems education (ITKSE). Indigenous people have been at the front of technological developments from pre-colonial times. The list of precolonial industries, science, and technology is extensive, including blacksmithing, wood-carving, textile-weaving and dyeing, leather works, beadworks, pottery making, architecture, agricultural breeding, metal-working, salt production, gold-smithing, copper-smithing, leather-crafting, soap-making, bronze-casting, canoe-building, brewing, glass-making, and agriculture, for example. In some parts of the world such as Africa and Australia, these technologies still exist. ITKSE should not be left to exist outside of the technology education curriculum and classroom as it can benefit both indigenous students, who have been denied learning about what is relevant to them, and non-indigenous students. These cultural groups can expand their knowledge of technology by learning both ITKSE and Western technological knowledge systems education (WTKSE). ITKSE also presents opportunities for technology teachers to reflect on and revisit their depth of technological knowledge, pedagogies, and assessment. The intent of this book is transformational in the sense that it brings decolonial and indigenous perspectives into the technology education context. It extends technology education in the sense that it will not only influence Western-minded architects, artisans, designers, etc. but encourage indigenous-mindedness as well.

Author : Zilungile Lungi Sosibo,Eunice Ivala
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648892844

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Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Spaces: Shaping Futures and Envisioning Unity in Diversity and Transformation by Zilungile Lungi Sosibo,Eunice Ivala Pdf

Higher education in post-apartheid South Africa was always likely to attract academic interest, and yet there remains a dearth of research on creating teaching and learning spaces suitable for students from diverse backgrounds. Using examples from higher education institutions across the Southern African Developing Community (SADC) region, this volume explores the ways teaching and learning spaces are being used to advance the transformation agenda of higher education in these regions, and provides concrete recommendations for the future. The book is sure to appeal to academics from a variety of disciplines - from African, African American and ethnic studies to education and sociology. It will be of particular interest to teacher trainers, administrators and policy-makers working in higher education, and anyone else with a stake in managing cultural diversity in education.

Author : Shannon Morreira,Kathy Luckett,Siseko H. Kumalo,Manjeet Ramgotra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000402568

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Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education by Shannon Morreira,Kathy Luckett,Siseko H. Kumalo,Manjeet Ramgotra Pdf

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education. Occasionally, a theoretical concept arises in academic debate that cuts across individual disciplines. Such concepts – which may well have already been in use and debated for some time - become suddenly newly and increasingly important at a particular historical juncture. Right now, debates around decolonisation are on the rise globally, as we become increasingly aware that many of the old power imbalances brought into play by colonialism have not gone away in the present. The authors in this volume bring theories of decoloniality into conversation with the structural, cultural, institutional, relational and personal logics of curriculum, pedagogy and teaching practice. What is enabled, in practice, when academics set out to decolonize their teaching spaces? What commonalities and differences are there where academics set out to do so in universities across disparate political and geographical spaces? This book explores what is at stake when decolonial work is taken from the level of theory into actual practice. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1800103913

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Decolonizing African Studies by Toyin Falola Pdf

"The field of African Studies (the perception and representation of the African past) has played a central role in the different periods of Africa's liberation struggles. Having formed the basis for the justification of centuries of Euro-American socio-economic onslaughts, it has been identified as the appropriate tool for reversing the damages wreaked on Africa during these periods. This is mainly because the structure of the Euro-American hegemony in Africa was designed to alter and dictate African knowledge production systems and its application to African reality, in a bid to keep the continent perpetually reliant on the Global North. This is why the field of African Studies is and has always been instrumental in presenting the African narrative and enhancing its prospects. Despite their importance, the African perspectives continue to be marginalized or excluded in research, creating a problem of misrepresentation of the continent. It is to this that this book has responded-the urgent need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism in the academy and research methodologies"--

Author : Jerusha Conner,Rille Raaper,Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela,Launa Gauthier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350342460

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education by Jerusha Conner,Rille Raaper,Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela,Launa Gauthier Pdf

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university settings, but also to identify the common core elements, enabling conditions, constraints, and outcomes associated with student voice work in higher education. It offers a broad understanding of the methodologies, current debates, history, and future of the field, identifying avenues for future research.