Decolonising education in South Africa : perspectives and debates
Date
2018-06
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Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela University
Abstract
The politics of knowledge in South African universities has recently witnessed a radical discursive
rupture. The call for decolonising education was a cornerstone of students’ recognition struggles at
universities. Mobilising on the basis of their demand for free education, students across the university
sector expressed the need for change in university knowledge and curricula in the light of what they
described as their exposure to Eurocentric, racist, and sexist knowledge at untransformed institutions.
They argued that such a knowledge orientation is at the heart of their experience of alienation at the
university. They suggested that only the complete overhaul of the curriculum on the basis of a
decolonising education approach would provide them the type of educational access that addresses
their emerging African-centred humanness.
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CITATION: Fataar, A. 2018. Decolonising Education in South Africa: Perspectives and Debates. Educational Research for Social Change, 7:vi=ix.
The original publication is available at http://ersc.nmmu.ac.za/
The original publication is available at http://ersc.nmmu.ac.za/
Keywords
Politics of knowledge -- South Africa, Decolonising education, South African universities -- Higher education, University knowledge -- univeristy curricula, Untransformed institutions, Colonial rule, Colonial university
Citation
Fataar, A. 2018. Decolonising Education in South Africa: Perspectives and Debates. Educational Research for Social Change, 7:vi=ix.