- Title
- Decolonizing the science curriculum: When good intentions are not enough
- Creator
- Adendorff, Hanelie
- Creator
- Blackie, Margaret A L
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445796
- Identifier
- vital:74433
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781003028215
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003028215-14/decolonizing-science-curriculum-hanelie-adendorff-margaret-blackie
- Description
- Universities across the world are facing the need to transform as access is opened up and student cohorts diversify. In the case of South Africa, these calls for transformation are specifically related to ‘decolonization’. Since 2015, South African universities have experienced growing student protests as students mobilize against institutional racism and demand that higher education curricula are decolonized. This chapter uses the LCT specialization plane, which explores the basis of legitimacy in relation to knowledge and knowers, to analyse the content of these calls for decolonization, particularly with respect to science education. The analysis provides a way into real dialogue. Having established what is at stake in the conversation we turn to the ‘autonomy code’ to explore what decolonization might look like in practice and shows why current decolonization attempts might be perceived as perpetuating past injustices. Although focused on the South African context, this chapter offers generalizable principles applicable to any educational institutions undergoing transformation.
- Format
- 18 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Adendorff, H. and Blackie, M.A., 2020. Decolonizing the science curriculum: When good intentions are not enough. In Building knowledge in higher education (pp. 237-254). Routledge
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