Unyoking African university knowledge : a pursuit of the decolonial agenda / Amasa P. Ndofirepi, Simon Vurayai, and Gloria Erima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndofirepi, Amasa, author.

Vurayai, Simon, author.

Erima, Gloria, author.

Series:

African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives Series

African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives Series ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects--Africa.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Curricula--Africa.

Education and globalization--Africa.

Education and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2023]

Summary:

Unyoking African University Knowledges unpacks and explores a new trajectory of how universities in Africa and the knowledges they deliver and produce can be emancipated from the vestiges of the relics of colonialism year after political independence.

Contents:

Intro

Prelims

Contents

Acronyms

Notes on Contributors

The African University in Pursuit of anEmancipatory Knowledge Trajectory

Chapter 01: The African University in Pursuit of anEmancipatory Knowledge Trajectory

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Conceptions of Coloniality

3 Decolonisation in Higher Education

References

Chapter 02: African Knowledge and Canonicity

2 The Canon in Historical Context

2.1 The Challenge of Historical Inertia

2.2 Self-Reinforcing Practices of Exclus

3 Historical Moments for Irrevocable Cha

4 Conclusion

Note

Chapter 03: Africanising the University Curriculum

2 Conceptualising the Curriculum

3 The Rationale of the Africanisation Na

4 Elements of a Curriculum

4.1 Curriculum Purpose

4.1.1 The Needs of the Learners

4.1.2 The Subject Matter by Specialists

4.1.3 Contemporary Studies of Society or

4.2 Curriculum Content

4.2.1 Validity

4.2.2 Utility

4.2.3 Feasibility

4.2.4 Interest

4.3 Methodology

4.4 Evaluation

5 Proposed Model to Africanise Higher Ed

6 Conclusion

Chapter 04: The African University and the Urgent Need for Decoupling from the Global North

2 A Brief History of the University in A

3 The Decoupling Agenda

Chapter 05: Cognitive Justice as Social Justice in PostcolonialAfrica

2 Conceptualising Cognitive Justice and

3 Cognitive Justice, Social Justice and

4 Eurocentrism in the North South Dialec

5 Postcolonial African University

6 Decolonisation of African Universities

7 Role of Academic Leadership

8 Conclusion

References.

Chapter 06: False Dichotomy in Epistemic Decolonisation of Philosophy

2 Conceptualising Epistemic Decolonisati

3 Decolonisation Arguments

3.1 Disjunctive Syllogisms

3.2 Constructive Dilemmas

3.3 Destructive Dilemmas

3.4 Implicit Dilemmas

4 Analysis of Arguments

5 Thinking of Decolonisation beyond the

Chapter 07: From Academic Coconuts to Knowledge Custodians

1 Setting the Context

2 Conceptualising the Metaphor "Academi

3 The Genesis and Transformation of HE i

4 Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy and Epis

4.1 Pedagogy and Epistemology of the Opp

4.2 Emancipatory Pedagogy and Epistemolo

5 African Higher Education and the Dyna

5.1 Language, Pedagogy, and Epistemology

5.2 Curriculum and Cultural Imperialism

5.3 Research and Publishing

6 Journals and Libraries

7 Unyoking the Trapped Voices

Chapter 08: Decolonising the African Union Regional HigherEducation Policy

2 A Brief Background on Regional Higher

2.1 The Mwalimu Nyerere Programme

2.2 Tuning Africa

2.3 Pan-African University Network

2.4 Regional Quality Assurance Networks

3 Neocolonial Entanglement within Africa

4 Decolonial Approach towards the Afri

5 Conclusion

Chapter 09: Repurposing the University in Africa in the Context of the Tenacity of an Explicitly Racist Epistemology

2 Contextual Appreciation

3 Some Challenges in Deconstructing Euro

4 Repurposing the University in Africa:

5 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 10: Social Justice Reconsidered

2 In Defence of Critique

3 Deepening Social Justice through Criti.

4 On Critical Online Teaching and Learni

5 Towards a Pedagogical Space for Critiq

Chapter 11: Decolonising Knowledge in African Universities

2 Decolonisation in the Epistemic Way

2.1 Decolonising the Curriculum-Six Diff

3 Decolonising the University, But Stayi

4 How Do We Compete Globally in Terms A

5 Is Decolonising the University Too Lat

5.1 Language, Knowledge, Curricula, and

5.2 Zoning &amp

Ranking

Chapter 12: The Hermeneutics of a Liberated Knowledge Fundin an African University

2 The Central Role of Knowledge

3 The Neoliberal University in Africa

4 Knowledge Hegemony in the Decolonial E

5 The Place of the African University in

6 Some Concluding Remarks

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-54810-6