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English Studies: Decolonisation, Deparochialising Knowledge and the Null Curriculum
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Chaka, Chaka; Lephalala, Mirriam; Ngesi, Nandipha – Perspectives in Education, 2017
This paper reports on a desktop review study of undergraduate and postgraduate English studies (both English literature and English language) module offerings (n = 48) of 24 English departments at 17 South African higher education institutions (HEIs) conducted in 2017. The review focused on the presence and purpose of the term, decolonisation, in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Foreign Policy, English Departments
On the "Africanization" of English Studies in South Africa
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Cornwell, Gareth – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2006
The article is an exploration of current trends within, and the desired destiny of, the humanities discipline of English Studies in the context of calls for the "Africanization" of South African universities. The essay advocates the embrace of a non-universalist, emancipationist humanism. (Contains 8 notes.)
Descriptors: English Departments, Foreign Countries, Humanities, Higher Education
Mind and Inferiority: Reflections on "English" as a University Discipline in a Black Context.
Aitken, Richard – Gifted Education International, 1987
The social/political issues facing university English departments in South Africa include problems of identity and definition, the need for instruction within the context of social and political history, the problems of cultural relativism, the corrosive implications of Black subordination, and the complex alternatives of private and public…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Liberties, Cultural Differences, English Departments