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Book SynopsisThis 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 â 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.
Trade Review"This book is a good read. It inspires us to see the complexities and challenges of addressing DCP in the social sciences and humanities. I would highly recommend it to audiences that include faculty and graduate students in the fields of higher education, scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), and decolonial studies." - Riyad A. Shahjahan, Educational Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education
Shannon Morreira, Kathy Luckett, Siseko H. Kumalo and Manjeet Ramgotra
1. Resurrecting the Black Archive through the decolonisation of philosophy in South Africa
Siseko H Kumalo
2. Decoloniality, Spanish and Latin American studies in Australian universities: ¿es un mundo ch’ixi posible?
Danielle H. Heinrichs
3. Decolonising sociology: perspectives from two Zimbabwean universities
Simbarashe Gukurume and Godfrey Maringira
4. Initiating decolonial praxis: childhood studies curricula in an English university
Dimitrina Kaneva, Jo Bishop and Nicole E. Whitelaw
5. Decolonising the school curriculum in South Africa: black women teachers’ perspectives
Pryah Mahabeer
6. Ubuntu currere in the academy: a case study from the South African experience
Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo, Lester Brian Shawa and Sabelo Abednego Nxumalo
7. Place and pedagogy: using space and materiality in teaching social science in Southern Africa
Shannon Morreira, Josiah Taru and Carina Truyts
8. Methodology and academic extractivism: the neo-colonialism of the British university
Melany Cruz and Darcy Luke
