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Scholars in this edited collection tackle the issue of teaching students Technology while Technology Education has not been decolonized or made relevant to indigenous technological worldviews. This book provides solutions that address the question: How to decolonize Technology Education? The solutions include the African Technology Education Decolonization Framework that should guide the design and development of the Technology Education curriculum and its methodologies in tune with the local realities and tailored towards the African agenda on sustainable development. This book offers fresh ideas to conceptualize Technology Education from an indigenous perspective.
List of contents
Mishack T. Gumbo: Preface - Mishack T. Gumbo: Introduction - Mishack T. Gumbo: What Does Decolonizing Technology Education Mean? - Joseph ZZ. Matowanyika: Modern Technologies as Vestiges of Indigenous Technologies - Mishack T. Gumbo: Disruptive Function of Modern Technology on Indigenous Technologies - Ronald J. Odora: Embracing African Worldview: Rationale for Decolonizing Technology Education Curriculum in Higher Education in South Africa - Peter Kwaira: African Indigenous Technologies: The Answer to Sustainable Development - Dominic Mashoko: Indigenous Peoples' Food Preservation Technologies and the Science Curriculum - Mishack T. Gumbo/Tomé A. Mapotse: Indigenous Mining and Its Criminalization: Implications for Technology Education - Keiphe Setlhatlhanyo/Odireleng Marope/Patrick Dichabeng: Indigenous Textile Technologies and Their Implications for Decolonizing Technology Education - Edward Shizha: African Indigenous Agricultural Technologies: Implications for Decolonizing Technology Education - Mishack T. Gumbo: Considering Alternative Knowledge Forms in Technology Education - Mishack T. Gumbo: Decolonizing Technology Education Curriculum: The Case of South Africa - Michael Gaotlhobogwe/Victor Ruele: Decolonizing Technology Education: The Case of Botswana Higher Education - Peter Kwaira: Decolonizing Technology Education Curriculum: The Case of Zimbabwe - Mishack T. Gumbo/Richie Moalosi/Michael Gaotlhobogwe: An African Technology Education Decolonization Framework - Richie Moalosi/Yaone Rapitsenyane/Oanthata J. Sealetsa: Design as an Anchor of Technology Education: An African Cultural World View - Ronald J. Odora: Realigning the Technology Classroom/Laboratory to an Indigenous Context - Khazamula J. Maluleka: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Methodology of Technology Education - Khazamula J. Maluleka: Integrating Indigenous Resources and Materials in the Teaching of Technology - Tomé Awshar Mapotse: Developing Technology Teachers through Action Research: An African Perspective - Contributors.
About the author
Mishack T. Gumbo is a Professor in the College of Education at the University of South Africa. He earned his PhD and BA from Vista University. He has a MEd in Technology Education, a Ort-International Certificate in Technology Education, a B TECH Professional Certificate in Project Management, and a Cert. in DE & E-Learning.
Summary
This book provides solutions that address the question: how to decolonize Technology Education.
