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Panel 7: Decolonising Education, Disrupting Global Hierarchies: Towards a new moral knowledge economy?

Venue: 

Organizers: Gritt B. Nielsen, AU, Karen Valentin, AU & Thierry Luescher, HSRC, South Africa

Wednesday 13.00-15.00

Theme: Collaboration, participatory methods and participatory pedagogy

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13.00-13.10: Welcome and Opening (Gritt Nielsen, Karen Valentin, Thierry Luescher)

13.10: Adressing climate justice and epistemic justice in CATER PhDSchools for African and European PhDscholars does it work?

Erlend Eidsvik – Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

13.30: Concepts, Collaborations, and Careers: The Decoloniality of Engaged Research and Joint Learning

Sten Hagberg – Uppsala University

13.50: The Use of Narrative Inquiry as a Decolonial Methodology in Social Justice Research

Asiphe Mxalisa – Rhodes University

14.10: History teaching and school segregation – examples from Eastern Cape in South Africa and Malmö in Sweden

Jonas Sjölander – Linnaeus University

14.30: Paulo Freire as an Epistemologist of the South and His Influence in Africa

Juha Suoranta – Tempere University

Wednesday 15.30-17.00

Theme: Policy/SDGs/ ed systems

15.30: Reimagining Educational Frameworks: A Decolonial Approach to Sustainable Development.

Jose Frantz, Pearl Erasmus, Tamara Goliath – University of the Western Cape

15.50: Deimperializing Europe: Legacies, Stakes, and Pathways for Renewal

Wesley Maraire – University of Bergen

16.10: Epistemic politics of the SDGs

Teppo Eskelinen – University of Eastern Finland


Thursday 10.30 – 12.30

Theme: participation in knowledge economies

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10.30: Decolonization of African Language Instruction in South Africa: A Systematic Review of Its Impact on Student Readiness for University and Global Knowledge Participation

Pontsho Gloriah Molefe, Lentswe Mosweunyane, Yekela Salusiwe – Central University of Technology Free State

10.55: FROM TURFLOOP TO TRANSFORMATION: THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO’S ROLE IN BUILDING EQUITABLE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES

Buliswa Msana – University of Limpopo

11.20: Technological courses in addressing inequalities through universities as agents for change

Nobert Jere, Tanaka Jere – University of Fort Hare

11.45: Economic (de)growth: About Epistemic Curriculum Delinking

Suriamurthee Maistry - University of KwaZulu-Natal,

Erlend Eidsvik, Irene Tollefsen - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Q&A

LUNCH 12.30-13.30

Thursday 13.30- 16.00

Theme: Indigenous knowledge/knowledge systems/ curriculum

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13.30: Institutional Strategies for Decolonising Higher Education in Eswatini: A Case Study Analysis of Selected Institutions

Solomon Makola, Goodness Tshabalala, Mbuso Tshabalala – Central University of Technology

13.50: AN EVALUATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CURRICULA TO THE CALL FOR DECOLONISATION AND TRANSFORMATION AT NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY

Mahlatse Malatji, Amina Jakoet-Salie, Guswin De Wee – Nelson Mandela University

14.10: Exploring the Impact of Decolonizing Agricultural Knowledge on Sustainable Agricultural Development in Zimbabwe: A Critical Analysis of Equity, Power Dynamics, and Knowledge Systems

Edith Matema - Women’s University in Africa and University of the Free State

Coffee/Tea break 14.30-15.00

15.00: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN AGRICULTURE CURRICULUM FOR THE POST COLONIAL ERA IN ESWATINI

Tsikati Alfred Fana – University of Eswatini

15.20: DECOLONISING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES IN TEACHER TRAINING: RETHINKING CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS

Medwin Sepadi, JM Masenya – University of Limpopo

Q&A