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The Impact of a Eurocentric Curriculum on Students from the Global South and North
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Karen Biraimah; Leon Roets; Brianna Kurtz – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
While research on the impact of a Eurocentric curriculum has often focused on marginalized populations in developing nations, it is paramount that scholars also examine the impact of this curriculum on students in the Global North. To this end, this paper begins by first defining and then critiquing what is often referred to as the…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Developing Nations, Mathematics Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Critical Review of the Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa
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Heleta, Savo – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
In 2019, the South African government approved the Department of Higher Education and Training's (DHET) Policy Framework for Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Africa. The framework provides policy guidelines universities will need to follow when developing institutional internationalisation policies. Using critical discourse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Global Approach
On Decolonizing US Education: Lessons from the Caribbean and South Africa
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Sappleton, Shan J.; Adams, Doug – Professional Educator, 2022
US education is hardly divorced from systemic societal inequalities. Utilizing the cases of the English-speaking Caribbean and post-apartheid South Africa decolonization efforts, we engage the settler coin concept to interrogate the popular notion that we can achieve systemic change in the US without fundamentally transforming the education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Foreign Policy
Ethnocentric Shapeshifting: Seeking Traces of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Caring amongst Early Childhood Education Lecturers
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Hannaway, Donna; Du Preez, Hannelie – Africa Education Review, 2021
Higher education institutions (HEIs) remain fraught with student activism because transforming and decolonising curricula to promote culturally responsive education is still lingering. Prolonging a trajectory of culturally apathetic education will not only lead to impoverished and decoupled human knowledge systems but also quell democratic…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Culturally Relevant Education, Caring, Early Childhood Education
Decolonising Teacher Education Curriculum in South African Higher Education
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Ajani, Oluwatoyin A.; Gamede, Bongani T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Calls for the decolonisation of higher education in South Africa gained prominence after the #Rhodesmustfall, #Feesmustfall and series of 2015-2016 students' protests in South African higher institutions. Visible in the demands of the students during these protests was the need for the decolonisation of higher education curriculum to ensure…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Decolonial Human Rights Education: Changing the Terms and Content of Conversations on Human Rights
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Becker, Anne – Human Rights Education Review, 2021
The aim of this paper is to search for possibilities to change the terms and content of conversations on colonial/decolonial human rights education. The content of conversations consists of what we know about human rights. The terms of conversations are the principles, assumptions, and rules of knowing in human rights education. The terms and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Ethnocentrism