Decolonising Knowledge And Knowers Struggles For University Transformation In South Africa | Education

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 #Fees Must Fall and #Rhodes Must Fall 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. |Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa | Education