Decolonisation in Universities

Jonathan Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, current President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and President of the South African Academy of Science. He is a prolific writer and educationist in South Africa.

This outstanding collection by some of South Africa’s foremost thinkers will add clarity to the challenges facing our universities … In sharp and interesting ways the contributors remind us of the complexity of the historical moment as we try to fathom the role of universities as social institutions in a severely unequal, deeply divided society. — Ahmed Bawa, Professor and Chief Executive Officer of Universities South Africa This is a long-awaited, incisive and insightful book on decolonising knowledge in university curricula, drawing on key thinkers in the area. It will have immense impact on theory and practice beyond the borders of South Africa. — Shirley Anne Tate, Professor of Race and Education and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Carnegie School of Education

• Introduction and Overview: The Politics of Curriculum – Jonathan D JansenPart 1: The arguments for decolonisationChapter 1 Decolonising universities – Mahmood MamdaniChapter 2 The curriculum case for decolonization – Lesley Le GrangePart 2: The politics and problems of decolonisationisationChapter 3 Knowledge, authority and the settled curriculum – Jonathan D JansenChapter 4 The institutional curriculum, pedagogy and the decolonisation of the South African university – Lis LangeChapter 5 What counts and who belongs? Current debates in decolonising the curriculum – Ursula Hoadley and Jaamia GalantPart 3: Doing decolonizationChapter 6 Scaling decolonial consciousness? The reinvention of ‘Africa’ in a neoliberal university – Jess Auerbach, Mlungisi Dlamini and Janice NdegwaChapter 7 Testing transgressive thinking: The “Learning Through Enlargement” Initiative at UNISA – Crain SoudienChapter 8 Between higher and basic education in South Africa: What does decolonisation mean for teacher education? – Yusuf Sayed and Shireen MotalaPart 4: Reimaging colonial inheritancesChapter 9 Public Art and/as Curricula: Seeking a new role for monuments associated with oppression – Brenda SchmahmannChapter 10 The Plastic University: knowledge, disciplines and the decolonial turn – André KeetChapter 11 Decolonising knowledge: can ubuntu ethics save us from coloniality? – Piet NaudePart 5: Decolonisation and the futureChapter 12 Future knowledges and their implications for the decolonisation project – Achille MbembeAfterword: Minds via Curricula? – Grant ParkerReferencesList of abbreviationsIndex