- Title
- The ‘decolonial turn’: what does it mean for academic staff development?
- Creator
- Vorster, Jo-Anne
- Creator
- Quinn, Lynn
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66612
- Identifier
- vital:28971
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.17159/1947-9417/2017/853
- Description
- publisher version
- Description
- It has become increasingly evident that the discourse of transformation that has shaped the democratising of higher education institutions over the first two decades of the democratic dispensation in South Africa has now run its course. Over the past few years, and particularly during the tumultuous student protests of 2015 and 2016, students and some academics have been calling for the decolonisation of university structures and cultures, including curricula. Using concepts from Margaret Archer’s social realism we consider the failure of the discourse of transformation to lead to real change and examine a constellation of new discourses related to the decolonisation of universities that have emerged in South Africa recently. Furthermore, we critique the discourses that have underpinned our own practices as academic developers over the past two decades and then explore the implications of what could be termed a ‘decolonial turn’ 1 for academic developers and by implication for the academics with whom they work.
- Format
- Format
- 25 pages
- Publisher
- University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Education as Change
- Relation
- Vorster, Jo-Anne, and Quinn, Lynn. (2017). The "decolonial turn": what does it mean for academic staff development?. Education as Change, 21(1), 31-49. https://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1947-9417/2017/853
- Relation
- Education as Change volume 21 number 1 31 49 2017 1947-9417
- Rights
- Copyright held by the authors
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the National Library of South Africa Copyright Act (http://www.nlsa.ac.za/downloads/Copyright%20Act.pdf)
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