Decolonising education in SA — a reflection on a learning-teaching approach

A defamiliarisation approach allows students to become their own narrators and also understand what their peers are going through

11 October 2022 - 21:18 By Zayd Waghid

It has been seven years since students in South Africa began protesting (https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/student-protests-democratic-south-africa) in a bid to “Africanise” the country’s university curricula. They viewed what they were learning as too neoliberal (https://oxfordre.com/education/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264093-e-404) — characterised by Western values pushing the marketisation of education. They wanted universities to become more relevant to students in an African country and more connected to their own lives...

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