Description
| Product ID: | 9781009077934 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Decolonization of Knowledge |
| Subtitle: | Radical Ideas and the Shaping of Institutions in South Africa and Beyond |
| Authors: | Author: Cyrill A. Walters, Jonathan D. Jansen |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | African history, African history, National liberation and independence, Higher education, tertiary education, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Pressure groups & lobbying, Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This is an innovative and accessible study of how decolonization is engaged with, subverted, and transformed as a curriculum change project in universities since the #RhodesMustFall movement, based on interviews and insights from ten universities with over two hundred academic teachers. In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town used the slogan #RhodesMustFall to demand that a monument of Cecil John Rhodes, the empire builder of British South Africa, be removed from the university campus. Soon students at Oxford University called for the removal of a statue of Rhodes from Oriel College. The radical idea of decolonization at the forefront of these student protests continues to be a key element in South African educational institutions as well as those in Europe and North America. This book explores the uptake of decolonization in the institutional curriculum, given the political demands for decolonization on South African campuses, and the generally positive reception of the idea by university leaders. Based on interviews with more than two hundred academic teachers at ten universities, this is an innovative account of how institutions have engaged with, subverted, and transformed the decolonization movement since #RhodesMustFall. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-30 |
