Posts about: defamiliarisation

Decolonising education in South Africa – a reflection on a learning-teaching approach

Decolonising education in South Africa – a reflection on a learning-teaching approach

It has been seven years since students in South Africa began protesting in a bid to “Africanise” the country’s university curricula. They viewed what they were learning as too neoliberal – 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 […]…