Decolonising African higher education : practitioner perspectives from across the continent
Decolonising African higher education
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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| Omfang | xviii, 160 sider
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| Opplysninger | Decolonising higher education : definitions, conceptualisations, epistemologies / Christopher B. Knaus, Takako Mino, and Johannes Seroto -- Centring African knowledges to decolonise higher education / Mishack T. Gumbo, Velisiwe Gasa, and Christopher B. Knaus -- Curriculum transformation to decolonise African higher education / Ngepathimo Kadhila and John Nyambe -- Removing and recentring : student activist perceptions of curricular decolonisation / Khazamula J. Maluleka -- Localising knowledge systems / Ferdinand M. Chipindi, Ane Turner Johnson, and Marcellus Forh Mbah -- Reclaiming indigenous epistemes : Entenga drums revival at Kyambogo University / James Isabirye -- On language, coloniality, and resistance : a conversation between Abdirachid Ismail and Christopher B. Knaus -- (De)colonising physical education in Ghana / Bella Bello Bitugu and Austin Wontepaga Luguterah -- The re-assimilation of indigeneity in education : a long-term journey / Takako Mino and Elaine Alowo Matovu.. - "This book clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation, offering hope from universities across the continent. Writers are university administrators and faculty who directly challenge contemporary colonial education, exploring tangible ways to decolonise structures, curricula, pedagogy, research, and community relationships. In shifting from a Western-centric lens to multi-faceted African-centrism, the authors reclaim decoloniality from co-optation, repositioning African intellectualism at the core of global higher education to sustain an Ubuntu-based humanity"--
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| Emner | Afrocentrism.
Education, Higher - Social aspects - Africa. Educational change - Africa. Postcolonialism - Africa. Vis mer... høyere utdanning postkolonialisme
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| ISBN | 9780367745189. - 9780367745196
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