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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
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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
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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
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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
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This document contains three papers on global knowledge transfer issues and human resource development (HRD). "Indigenizing Knowledge Transfer" (Gary N. McLean) explores examples of HRD in which ethnocentric perspectives predominate and argues that, unless a HRD develops a global perspective, efforts to transfer knowledge within academia…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis