Description
This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics. It claims that academics from socially, politically, and geographically underprivileged communities in the South need to have their voices heard outside of the global power structure.
The book argues that African universities need a relevant curriculum that is related to the cultural and environmental experiences of diverse African learners in order to empower themselves and transform the world. It is written by African scholars and is based on theoretical and practical debates on the epistemological complexities affecting and afflicting diversity in higher education in Africa. It examines who are the primary custodians of African university knowledges, as well as how this relates to forms of exclusion affecting women, the differently abled, the rural poor, and ethnic minorities, as well as the significance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the future of African universities. The book takes an epistemological approach to university teaching and learning, addressing issues such as decolonization and identity, social closure and diversity disputes, and the obstacles that come with the neoliberal paradigm.
The book will be necessary reading for academics, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of Sociology of Education, decolonising education, Inclusive Education, and Philosophy of Education, as it resonates with existing discourses.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Chapter 1- Gender, disability and rurality: decoding the themes in the African university milieu
Amasa P. Ndofirepi
Chapter 2- Reflection on disability (and) educational justice in Africa’s structurally unjust society during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown
Erasmus Masitera
Chapter 3- Improving processes, practices and structures in South African higher education: Voices of students with disabilities
Sibonokuhle Ndlovu
Chapter 4- Social justice in higher education: a quest for equity, inclusion and epistemic access
Tsediso Michael Makoelle
Chapter 5- Decolonising African university teaching by unyoking Deaf culture from disability
Martin Musengi
Chapter 6- Theorising feminist voices in the curriculum in an African university
Beatrice Akala
Chapter 7- Knowledge democracy and feminist epistemic struggle in African universities
Simon Vurayai
Chapter 8- Globalisation and commodification of knowledge liberating women’s academic achievements from conventional global power hierarchies
Zvisinei Moyo
Chapter 9- The Place of Universities in Africa in the Global Information Society: A Critique
J. Kundai Chingarande and Clyton Dekeza
Chapter 10- Gender, disability, rurality, and social injustice in the African university: Opportunities going forward
Amasa P. Ndofirepi
Afterword by Yusef Waghid
Index
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