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4 - The Contending Meanings of Decolonization and the Implications for Radical Curriculum Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2022

Jonathan D. Jansen  and
Cyrill A. Walters
Jonathan D. Jansen
Affiliation:
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Cyrill A. Walters
Affiliation:
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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This chapter documents the different meanings assigned to decolonization by academic practitioners and why their particular understandings of the concept emerged under the relentless pressure for curriculum change from the protesting students. The absence of some guiding conceptions of the highly political term meant that academics 'filled-in' their own meanings ranging from decolonization as good teaching to remedial education to critical pedagogy.

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addictive contentAfricanizationremediationcritical pedagogynon-change
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The Decolonization of Knowledge
Radical Ideas and the Shaping of Institutions in South Africa and Beyond
 , pp. 90 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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