Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa (Legitimation Code Theory)

✍ Scribed by Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo (editor), Hanelie Adendorff (editor), Margaret A.L. Blackie (editor), Aslam Fataar (editor), Paul Maluleka (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education. Galvanised by #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall student protests, South Africa has seen particularly intense and broad social engagement with debates over decolonising universities. However, much of this debate has been consumed with definitions and meanings. In contrast, Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers shows how conceptual tools, specifically from Legitimation Code Theory, can be enacted in research and teaching to meaningfully work towards productive decolonisation. Each chapter addresses a key issue in contemporary debates in South African higher education and show how practices concerning knowledge and knowers are playing a role, drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, praxis, and interdisciplinary research.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
1 Introducing ‘decolonising knowledge and knowers’
2 Pursuing decolonial knowledge-building in South African higher education
3 Building a ‘decolonial knower’: Contestations in the humanities
4 Decolonising the university: Some thoughts on recontextualising knowledge
5 Towards a decolonized school history curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa through enacting Legitimation Code Theory
6 Decolonization and science education: What is at stake?
7 A decolonial science education: How do we move forward?
Name index
Subject index