“Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice

M Flockemann - Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2020 - cambridge.org
The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of
Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting …

Sentimentality and digital storytelling: Towards a post-conflict pedagogy in pre-service teacher education in South Africa

D Gachago - 2015 - open.uct.ac.za
This study is set against the background of a continued lack of social engagement across
difference in South African classrooms. It set out to explore the potential of a specific …

Pedagogy is a messy affair: A performative narrative of being new

M Müller, F Kruger, N Lekoala… - Qualitative …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article uses performative writing to explore the pedagogical entanglement of staff,
students, and matter at the University of the Free State, South Africa. It is a collaborative …

[HTML][HTML] Critical literacies, imagination and the affective turn: Postgraduate students' redesigns of race and gender in South African higher education

B Mendelowitz, N Govender - Linguistics and Education, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we build on critical literacy scholarship and the affective turn, focusing
particularly on the redesign process. A close and critical textual analysis of student …

Literary reading as a web of relationships: Implications for pedagogy at a South African university

M Prozesky, N Nkealah - Arts and Humanities in Higher …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We teach English literature in South Africa, to third-or fourth-language English speakers.
Increasingly dissatisfied with the effectiveness of our pedagogy under conditions of …

[HTML][HTML] Owning your emotions or sentimental navel-gazing

D Gachago, E Ivala, A Chigona, J Condy - Cultural Science Journal, 2015 - sciendo.com
Literature argues that for post-conflict pedagogies to facilitate student engagement across
difference it requires emotional engagement with the subject. However, how to achieve such …

[PDF][PDF] Teaching in the time of crisis: A decolonial take of my experiences of online teaching at a rural university in South Africa

P Maluleka - African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and …, 2021 - researchgate.net
The spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus in South Africa, like in many parts of the world,
has led to a sustained national lockdown meant to prevent the continued spread, as well as …

[PDF][PDF] Creative Meaning-Making through a Multimodal, Interdisciplinary Exploration: Lessons for Higher Education Curriculum Enhancement.

B Verster, K Collett, C van den Berg - Alternation, 2019 - academia.edu
Within the context of the neoliberal managerialism that is pervading higher education in
South Africa, academia is driven by a stringent set of prescriptions. Teaching within this …

Decoloniality in/and Poetry

KK Shoro, DC Byrne, D Newfield - Education as Change, 2020 - scielo.org.za
This themed issue of Education as Change responds to the “decolonial turn” in academic
and public discourse. The# RhodesMustFall and# FeesMustFall student protests at South …

[PDF][PDF] A Man is a Tale that is Told: The Utility of African Folktales in an Afrocentric Curriculum and in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

A Sheik - Alternation, 2020 - researchgate.net
The African consciousness has been subsumed mostly by western ideology and resurfaces
only in misrecognition and habitual disavowal. Valorising everything European, a history of …