Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Selina Linda Mudavanhu, Shepherd Mpofu, and Kezia Batisai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mudavanhu, Selina Linda

Mpofu, Shepherd.

Batisai, Kezia

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge African Media, Culture and Communication Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Study and teaching (Higher)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Communication.

Mass media--Study and teaching (Higher)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Selina Linda Mudavanhu is Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies and Media Arts Department in the Humanities faculty at McMaster University in Canada. She is also Senior Research Associate with the Department of Communication and Media (University of Johannesburg, South Africa). Selina holds a PhD in Media Studies from South Africa. She also has degrees from the University of Zimbabwe. Her research interests include critical media studies, critical race studies, coloniality, and decoloniality as well as digital storytelling. Selina has received grants and awards to convene qualitative projects using digital storytelling with partners in Canada and South Africa. She has received funding from the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, the Petro-Canada-McMaster University Young Innovator Award, the McMaster Arts Research Board, McMaster University's International Office, and the MacPherson Institute's Student Partners Program (SPP). Selina has published in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial boards of African Journalism Studies and Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa. Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of South Africa. He has published several articles on communication, media, and journalism in Africa. His body of work covers social media and politics, social media and identity, and social media and protests. He is the editor of The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives From the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and Digital Humour in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives From the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and co-editor of Mediating Xenophobia in Africa (Palgrave 2020). Kezia Batisai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg who holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Cape Town. Kezia has written several journal articles, book chapters, technical reports, and opinion pieces that expand her theory of marginality. The published work questions notions of marginality and the meaning of being different that expose the politics of nation-building in Africa. Kezia's work articulates these notions of marginality through an interdisciplinary approach to gender, sexuality, health, and migration studies, and interrogates how people marked by society as "the minority" (based on intersecting positionalities) negotiate being different within various hierarchised zones of the everyday. Kezia is an active member of the International Sociological Association; South African Association for Gender Studies; South African Sociological Association; and the Research Network Law, Gender, and Sexuality (LEX) International Steering Committee.

Contents:

PART IBig picture considerations: decolonising media and communication studies education in sub-Saharan Africa1 Connecting the dots: decolonising communication and media studies teaching and learning in sub-Saharan AfricaSelina Linda Mudavanhu, Shepherd Mpofu, and Kezia Batisai2 Towards centring African languages in media and communication courses in postsecondary institutions in AfricaCecilia Katunge Kithome and Selina Linda MudavanhuPART IIRethinking classrooms: implications for students, instructors, and instruction3 Decolonising and reimagining instructor-student relationships in a communication and media studies fourth-level seminarSelina Linda Mudavanhu4 De-Westernisation and de-sacralisation as imperatives for the decolonisation of cinema teaching in sub-Saharan AfricaFloribert Patrick C. Endong5 Decolonising from the margins to the centre: Ghanaian communication classrooms in perspectiveIvy M. FofiePART IIIReflections on curricula and syllabi: possibilities and impossibilities6 Reflections on a decolonised communication and media studies curriculumColin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede7 Towards a decolonised human, university, and curriculum: some critical notesShepherd Mpofu8 'An-Other'-centred film curricula: decolonising film studies in AfricaBeschara Karam9 Decolonising the curricula and the space in Africa: an interdisciplinary approachKezia Batisai10 Should curricula be the same? Towards media studies curriculum reforms in KenyaJohn Ndavula and Peace Byrne Agufana11 Decolonisation deferred? An analysis of the Education 5.0 doctrine, the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education-approved media and communication curriculum and selected writings by Zimbabwean media academicsAlbert Chibuwe and Beauty Muromo12 Proposals for a decolonised course outline for a theories and methods course in communication and media studies Selina Linda Mudavanhu13 Reformatting and decolonising postsecondary educational priorities in South Africa in view of COVID-19Rhoda T. I. Patrick, Nthuna J. Ramohai and Linda Z. LinganisoPART IVBeyond classrooms14 African journalists at crossroads: examining the impact of China, US, and the UK's short-journalism training programmes offered to African journalistsGregory Gondwe15 EkoaWo: an African approach to decolonising communication research and practiceBlessed E. Ngoe

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2023).

ISBN:

9781003388395

1003388396

9781000988079

1000988074

Publisher Number:

40032159039

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