1st Edition

Possibilities and Complexities of Decolonising Higher Education Critical Perspectives on Praxis

Edited By Aneta Hayes, Kathy Luckett, Greg William Misiaszek Copyright 2023
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

The chapters in this book highlight the possibilities and complexities of putting decolonial theory to work in higher education in Northern and Southern contexts across the globe. This book looks at decolonial work as praxis involving transformation at a range of levels from theoretical development, national policy, institutional policy and culture, academic discipline, programme, course,... Read more

1. Introduction 

Kathy Luckett, Aneta Hayes and Greg William Misiaszek 

2. Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation 

Richard Hall, Lucy Ansley, Paris Connolly, Sumeya Loonat, Kaushika Patel and Ben Whitham 

3. From silence to ‘strategic advancement’: institutional responses to ‘decolonising’ in higher education in England 

Farzana Shain, Ümit Kemal Yıldız, Veronica Poku and Bulent Gokay 

4. Approaching global education development with a decolonial lens: teachers’ reflections 

Sharanya Menon, Crystal Green, Irène Charbonneau, Elina Lehtomäki and Boby Mafi 

5. Refusal as affective and pedagogical practice in higher education decolonization: a modest proposal 

Michalinos Zembylas 

6. Understanding the challenges entailed in decolonising a Higher Education institution: an organisational case study of a research-intensive South African university 

Anwar Shaik and Peter Kahn 

7. ‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison’: the significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education 

Marcia Leenen-Young, Sereana Naepi, Patrick Saulmatino Thomsen, David Taufui Mikato Fa’avae, Moeata Keil and Jacoba Matapo 

8. Epistemic decolonisation in reconstituting higher education pedagogy in South Africa: the student perspective 

Shireen Motala, Yusuf Sayed and Tarryn de Kock 

9. Disrupting curricula and pedagogies in Latin American universities: six criteria for decolonising the university 

Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela 

10. Indigenizing Engineering education in Canada: critically considered 

Jillian Seniuk Cicek, Alan Steele, Sarah Gauthier, Afua Adobea Mante, Pamela Wolf, Mary Robinson and Stephen Mattucci 

11. Holding space for an Aboriginal approach towards Curriculum Reconciliation in an Australian university 

Jade Kennedy, Alisa Percy, Lisa Thomas, Catherine Moyle and Janine Delahunty 

12. A Calle decolonial hack: Afro-Latin theorizing of Philadelphia’s spaces of learning and resistance 

Amalia Dache, Jasmine Blue, Devaun Bovell, Deja Miguest, Sydney Osifeso and Fabiola Tucux 

13. Distilling pedagogies of critical water studies 

Sheeva Sabati, Linnea Beckett, Kira Cragun-Rehders, Alyssa Najera, Katerina Hise and Anna Geiger 

14. Decolonising while white: confronting race in a South African classroom 

Sally Matthews 

15. Navigating student resistance towards decolonizing curriculum and pedagogy (DCP): a temporal proposal 

Kirsten T. Edwards and Riyad A. Shahjahan 

16. Four ‘moments’ of intercultural encountering 

Meike Wernicke 

Biography

Aneta Hayes is Senior Lecturer in Education at Keele University, UK and Executive Editor for Teaching in Higher Education. Her research interests include critical studies of internationalisation (including decolonisation), teaching excellence and global education developments, including glocalised perspectives.

Kathy Luckett is Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town and Executive Editor for Teaching in Higher Education. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge and curriculum studies in the Humanities, focusing on Africana, decolonial and postcolonial studies; and access, equity and multilingualism in higher education.

Greg William Misiaszek is Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University’s (BNU) Faculty of Education and an Associate Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA. His work focuses on critical, Freirean environmental pedagogies (e.g., ecopedagogy) through theories of globalizations, citizenships, decoloniality, race, gender, Southern/Indigenous issues, linguistics, and postdigitalism, among other critical lenses.