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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.
Table des matières
1.Gender, disability and rurality: decoding the themes in the African university milieu. 2.Reflection on disability (and) educational justice in Africa’s structurally unjust society during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. 3.Improving processes, practices and structures in South African higher education: Voices of students with disabilities. 4.Social justice in higher education: a quest for equity, inclusion and epistemic access. 5.Decolonizing African university teaching by unyoking Deaf culture from disability. 6.Theorising feminist voices in the curriculum in an African university. 7.Knowledge democracy and feminist epistemic struggle in African universities. 8.Globalisation and commodification of knowledge liberating women’s academic achievements from conventional global power hierarchies. 9.The place of universities in Africa in the global information society: A critique. 10.Gender, disability, rurality, and social injustice in the African university: Opportunities going forward. Afterword
A propos de l'auteur
Amasa P. Ndofirepi holds a PhD in Philosophy of Education and is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy and History of Education. He has extensive experience in teacher education, previously worked at various higher education institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa and has research interests in higher education studies from a philosophical perspective.
Felix Maringe is a Professor of Higher Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He researches issues of social justice in the Internationalisation and Globalisation of Higher Education. Felix is widely published in refereed journals and has six books to his credit.
Simon Vurayai is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Education. He is also a lecturer in the Sociology of Education at Great Zimbabwe University. His research interests are gender studies, social justice, problems in education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of mass media, sociology of development and poverty
Gloria Erima is a post-doctoral fellow at the department of Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Her research interest is centred around issues of social justice in education. She obtained her PhD in Education Leadership and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Résumé
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.
