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Decolonised Education: Cultivating Curriculum Renewal and Decoloniality

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At the time of implementing Teaching for Change for a second time via the FutureLearn platform, one of us had been invited to offer presentations at two institutional initiatives regarding university curriculum renewal. Considering that Stellenbosch University is celebrating 100 years of existence, the institutional management deemed it apposite to commemorate the occasion by making curriculum renewal one of its primary initiatives. The latter in itself is an acknowledgement that the rationale that undergirds teaching and learning ought to be reconceptualised in relation to a different university context. What is even more poignant about the renewal agenda of the institution is its focus on decolonisation and decoloniality in relation to curriculum change.

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  1. Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Yusef Waghid

  2. Centre for Innovative Learning Technology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa

    Faiq Waghid

  3. Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa

    Zayd Waghid

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Waghid, Y., Waghid, F., Waghid, Z. (2018). Decolonised Education: Cultivating Curriculum Renewal and Decoloniality. In: Rupturing African Philosophy on Teaching and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77950-8_9

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