- Title
- Reflections on Teaching Africa in South Africa:
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142235
- Identifier
- vital:38061
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1111/1467-9256.12107
- Description
- This article draws on the author’s experience of teaching African Studies to undergraduate South African students in order to reflect on some of the key challenges facing teachers of African Studies, both in South Africa and beyond. In particular, it discusses challenges relating to teaching a field as contested as African Studies, looking at whether teaching African alternatives to mainstream African politics is helpful and at whether and how one can teach Africa in a way that encourages and develops critical thinking. The article also explores how the racial politics of the context in which one teaches African Studies inevitably affects the way in which students engage with the content of the course. While the article discusses these issues in relation to the South African higher education context in particular, implications for other contexts are also highlighted.
- Format
- 15 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Politics
- Relation
- Matthews, S., 2016. Reflections on Teaching Africa in South Africa. Politics, 36(4), pp.467-481.
- Relation
- Politics volume 36 number 4 467 481 2016 0263-3957
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Sage Publishing Open Access Statement (https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/afr/open-access-at-sage)
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