Colonization and Epistemic Injustice in Higher Education - Precursors to Decolonization

Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geo-political spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems.

List of contents

1. The conceptual ‘jungle’ of the decolonisation of higher education: Contestations, contradictions and opportunities 2. Is Canadian higher education under attack by neoliberal policies? 3. Long road to decolonization of neoliberal and Eurocentric South African higher education 4. Cwélelep: Dissonance and new learning at the University of Victoria 5. Decolonization and internationalization of higher education in Vietnam: A historical perspective 6. The politics of knowing in African universities: A search for decolonised epistemologies 7. The Decolonization of History at the Universities of Malaysia and Singapore: Historical and Philosophical Antecedents 8. Australian higher education: God bless you if it’s good to you 9. From the ideal to non-ideal: Towards decolonized higher education in Africa 10. Colonisation and epistemic injustice revisited: A reflection on emerging themes

About the author

Felix Maringe is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Wits School of Education, South Africa.

Summary

Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geo-political spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems.

Product details

• Authors: Felix (University of the Witwatersrand Maringe
• Assisted by: Felix Maringe (Editor), Maringe Felix (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032014968
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3201496-8
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Global Debates on the Decolonialization of Higher Education
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; EDUCATION / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Moral & social purpose of education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher