Futurity, decolonization, and the academy: where to from here? / Siseko H. Kumalo. How to decolonize knowledge without too much relativism / Veli Mitova -- Complexities and challenges of decolonizing higher education: lessons from Canada / Sharon Stein et al. -- Beyond possession: de/colonizing the educational relationship in higher education / Fatima Pirbhai-Illich and Fran Martin -- Socratic social criticism in higher education / Siseko H Kumalo -- The anatomy of epistemicide and the search for epistemic justice: towards a relevant education / Tebogo J. Lebakeng -- Embracing an ethical epistemological approach in African higher education / Yvette Freter and Bjorn Freter -- Decolonization and displacement: Mbembe and decolonizing the university / Abraham Olivier -- Funda-mentalities: twists and turns in South African philosophy (of education) -- Ulrike Kistner -- Futurity, decolonization, and the academy: where to from here? / Siseko H. Kumalo.
Summary:
"Decolonisation as democratisation considers three factors that define the debate in South Africa on the decolonisation of the academy: educational aspiration, competing interests and political contestation. The book explores an academic system that attempt to serve two masters, the first being the historical beneficiaries of the academy (i.e. whiteness) and second being those who pin their hopes on the system in order to escape objection (i.e. blackness or indigeneity). The book highlights how the recent thrust of decoloniality protects the ideal of academic freedom and presents an argument that this ideal should not be used to protect the interests of the historical beneficiaries."
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