‘The whitest guy in the room:’ thoughts on decolonisation and paideia in the South African university

IF 0.8 4区 教育学 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI:10.1093/jopedu/qhad053
Dominic Griffiths
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Abstract This paper will reflect on the possibility of epistemic decolonization, particularly in terms of curriculum, as a transformative educational process in the context of the South African university, and with respect to my own positionality. The argument will centre around two difficult interdependent positions. On the one hand I will argue for the university’s task as transformational, even offering, via Cornel West, the ‘salvific’ possibility that knowledge offers those who seek it. To develop this claim, I will draw on and develop the notion of paideia though the work of Plato and Heidegger. On the other hand, within the postcolonial African university, the question of decolonization in the tertiary space cannot be elided, particularly since the 2015 #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements. The university is a powerful colonial relic, and it can be used to reinforce and perpetuate epistemic violence through unreflective or unconscious pedagogical and curriculum decisions. Here I draw on decolonial thinkers such as Santos, Mignolo, Maldonado-Torres and Mbembe: I argue for a reckoning with the forces of coloniality, and advocate for epistemic justice and criticality, as part of the decolonizing project. In conclusion, working with ideas from Cornel West, I argue to reconcile paideia, as the ‘turning of the soul’, with the decolonizing African university.
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“房间里最白的家伙”:南非大学对非殖民化和种族歧视的思考
本文将反思认识论去殖民化的可能性,特别是在课程方面,作为南非大学背景下的变革教育过程,以及我自己的立场。争论将围绕两个相互依存的困难立场展开。一方面,我认为大学的任务是变革性的,甚至通过康奈尔·韦斯特,知识为那些寻求知识的人提供了“拯救”的可能性。为了发展这一观点,我将通过柏拉图和海德格尔的作品,来借鉴和发展paideia的概念。另一方面,在后殖民时期的非洲大学中,高等教育领域的非殖民化问题不能被忽视,特别是自2015年#罗德必须下台(#RhodesMustFall)和#学费必须下台(#FeesMustFall)运动以来。大学是一个强大的殖民遗迹,它可以通过不经思考或无意识的教学和课程决策来加强和延续认知暴力。在这里,我引用了诸如Santos、Mignolo、Maldonado-Torres和Mbembe等非殖民化思想家的观点:我主张对殖民势力进行评估,并倡导知识正义和批判性,作为非殖民化项目的一部分。综上所述,结合康奈尔·韦斯特的观点,我主张将paideia(灵魂的转变)与非殖民化的非洲大学调和起来。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Philosophy of Education publishes articles representing a wide variety of philosophical traditions. They vary from examination of fundamental philosophical issues in their connection with education, to detailed critical engagement with current educational practice or policy from a philosophical point of view. The journal aims to promote rigorous thinking on educational matters and to identify and criticise the ideological forces shaping education. Ethical, political, aesthetic and epistemological dimensions of educational theory are amongst those covered.
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