Decolonising education in South Africa : perspectives and debates

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dc.contributor.authorFataar, Aslamen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-24T10:46:34Z
dc.date.available2019-10-24T10:46:34Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.descriptionCITATION: Fataar, A. 2018. Decolonising Education in South Africa: Perspectives and Debates. Educational Research for Social Change, 7:vi=ix.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://ersc.nmmu.ac.za/en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationFataar, A. 2018. Decolonising Education in South Africa: Perspectives and Debates. Educational Research for Social Change, 7:vi=ix.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2221-4070 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/106719
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Education, Nelson Mandela Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retian copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectPolitics of knowledge -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectDecolonising educationen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth African universities -- Higher educationen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversity knowledge -- univeristy curriculaen_ZA
dc.subjectUntransformed institutionsen_ZA
dc.subjectColonial ruleen_ZA
dc.subjectColonial universityen_ZA
dc.titleDecolonising education in South Africa : perspectives and debatesen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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