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Additional authors

1. Jansen, Jonathan D.

Description

1. viii, 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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?

Subject

1. Education, Higher > Curricula > South Africa
2. Decolonization
3. Education, Higher
4. Enseignement supérieur > Programmes d'études > Afrique du Sud
5. Décolonisation
6. Enseignement supérieur
7. higher education
8. South Africa
9. decolonization
10. curriculum
11. Colonial influence
12. Decolonization
13. Education, Higher
14. Education, Higher > Curricula
15. Africa > Colonial influence
16. Afrique > Influence coloniale
17. Africa
18. South Africa

Contents

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.