Decolonising African Higher Education (eBook, PDF)

Practitioner Perspectives from Across the Continent
Redaktion: Knaus, Christopher B.; Seroto, Johannes; Mino, Takako

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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, and community relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000577730
• Artikelnr.: 63713164

Autorenporträt

Christopher B. Knaus is a global critical race practitioner focused on collaborative disruption of anti-Black education and the centring of Black and Indigenous affirming systems. Dr. Knaus serves as a Professor of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. Takako Mino is a scholar-practitioner, who studies and strives to actualise a humanising education. Dr. Mino serves as an adjunct lecturer at Ashesi University in Ghana and co-founder of upcoming Musizi University in Uganda. Johannes Seroto is a research practitioner in Indigenous knowledge systems, the history of South African education, and colonial, post-colonial, and decolonisation studies. Dr. Seroto serves as a Professor of the History of Education at the University of South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

One: Decolonising Higher Education: Definitions
Conceptualisations
Epistemologies
Two: Centring African Knowledges to Decolonise Higher Education
Three: Curriculum Transformation to Decolonise African Higher Education
Four: Removing and Recentring: Student Activist Perceptions of Curricular Decolonisation
Five: Localising Knowledge Systems
Six: Reclaiming Indigenous Epistemes: Entenga Drums Revival at Kyambogo University
Seven: On Language
Coloniality
and Resistance: A Conversation between Abdirachid Ismail and Christopher B. Knaus
Eight: (De)Colonising Physical Education in Ghana
Nine: The Re-assimilation of Indigeneity in Education: A Long-term Journey