Sydney's Garden Palace, which burned to the ground in 1882, was a monument to empire's glory. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones is now working on an epic exhibition that will explore this historical epoch from an Aboriginal perspective.
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In South Africa there's a value judgment attached to students who take part in universities’ English for Academic Purposes programmes. This shouldn't be the case.
The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa's schooling systems today.
Decolonisation of the curriculum doesn't have to mean the destruction of Western knowledge, but it's decentring. Such knowledge should become one way of knowing rather than the only way.
Curriculum transformation has to happen. But it has to go further than simply borrowing ideas and concepts.
Africa has been called a "consumer continent" by many, but in reality much of what its people consume is produced elsewhere. Technology is key to Africa becoming a self-reliant producer of goods.
Utopianism is a neglected prism through which to view Africa. It is the space where the intricacies of decolonisation and independence can be properly comprehended.
It is normal for resistance movements to adopt rough survival strategies and techniques while fighting an oppressive regime. Unfortunately that culture takes root and is permanently nurtured.
South Africa's educational policies and curricula tend to be biased against rural lifestyles - even though nearly 20 million people live in the country's rural areas.
A curriculum can't be decolonised by simply removing content. This denies students the chance to participate in local policy debates and the global job market. A more nuanced approach is needed.
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Professor of English Language Teaching and Literacy Development, Rhodes University
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Emeritus Professor of African Linguistics, University of Leipzig
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study
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Art writer and Tutor, UNSW
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Director: UCT eResearch, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD Candidate in Language and Literacy, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Director of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge and Professor of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer in African and Transnational History, University of York
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
