Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Etieyibo, Edwin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes a case for the broadening of philosophy beyond that of the Western tradition, and the inclusion in the philosophical canons of other philosophical traditions and perspectives. It was originally published as articles in the South African Journal of Philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351336154
• Artikelnr.: 57966899

Autorenporträt

Edwin Etieyibo teaches Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is the editor of Perspectives in Social Contract Theory (CRVP, 2018); Method, Substance and the Future of African Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); co-author of Disabilities in Nigeria: Attitudes, Reactions, and Remediation (Hamilton Books, 2017); and the guest editor of the South African Journal of Philosophy special issue on 'Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum in Universities in Africa'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Circling the Task of Decolonisation and Africanisation
1. Afri-decolonisation, Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Task of
Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum 2 A defence of Wiredu's project of
conceptual decolonisation Part II: Methods and Approaches to Africanising
the Philosophy Curriculum 3. "Yielding ground to none": Normative
perspectives on African philosophy and its curricula 4. Teaching African
Philosophy in African institutions of higher learning: The implications for
African renaissance 5. Four questions on curriculum development in
contemporary South Africa Part III: Obligations and Need to Africanise the
Philosophy Curriculum 6. Teacher and student with a critical pan-epistemic
orientation: An ethical necessity for Africanising the educational
curriculum in Africa 7. Why ought the philosophy curriculum in universities
in Africa be Africanised? 8. Space Contestations and the Teaching of
African Philosophy in African Universities Part IV: Feasibility of
Africanising the Philosophy Curriculum 9. The question of recentring
Africa: Thoughts and issues from the global South 10. On a contextual South
African philosophy curriculum: Towards an option for the excluded Part V:
Problems, Challenges and Prospects of Africanising the Philosophy
Curriculum 11. Can the philosophy curriculum be Africanised? An examination
of the prospects and challenges of some models of Africanisation 12. On
Africanising the philosophy curricula: Challenges and prospects Part VI:
Towards the Africanisation of the Philosophy Curriculum: Suggestions and
Possibilities 13. Pursuing the agenda of Africanising philosophy in Africa:
Some possibilities 14. Teaching African philosophy alongside Western
philosophy: Some advice about topics and texts 15. Africanising the
philosophy curriculum through teaching African culture modules: An African
Renaissance act Part VII: Cautionary Notes on the Agenda of Africanising of
the Philosophy Curriculum 16. Some comments on Africanising a philosophy
curriculum 17. Problematising Western philosophy as one part of
Africanising the curriculum 18. Pitfalls of Negritude: Solace-driven
tertiary sector reform