Decolonising While White: Confronting Race in a South African Classroom

Autor/in	Matthews, Sally
Titel	Decolonising While White: Confronting Race in a South African Classroom
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 26 (2021) 7-8, S.1113-1121 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Matthews, Sally)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2021.1914571
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Higher Education; African Studies; Curriculum Development; College Curriculum; Social Justice; Teaching Methods; Teacher Attitudes; Whites; Racial Bias; Race; College Faculty; Foreign Policy; Activism; Racial Segregation; Teacher Student Relationship; College Students; Social Change; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerverhalten; White; Weißer; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Rasse; Abstammung; Fakultät; Außenpolitik; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Rassentrennung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Collegestudent; Sozialer Wandel; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In this paper, I explore whether and how white people can make a meaningful contribution to decolonising university curricula. Drawing on my experiences as a white academic teaching at a South African university, I argue that identity matters when talking about decoloniality and that whites need to think carefully about the effects of their whiteness on their attempts to contribute to decolonial scholarship. I also suggest that white contributions to attempts to decolonise university curricula involve a kind of ambivalence that needs to be recognised and worked with, rather than denied and obscured. Without such recognition, white participation in decolonial struggles may ultimately do more to alleviate the guilt of white academics than it does to dismantle the hierarchies that decolonial struggles ostensibly oppose. (As Provided).
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