ERIC Number: EJ1404546
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0267-1522
EISSN: EISSN-1470-1146
A Decolonial Reading of the History Curriculum: Towards Undoing "Historicide" for Curricular Justice for the Zimbabwean Learner
Bekithemba Dube; Nathan Moyo
Research Papers in Education, v38 n6 p865-885 2023
This study undertakes a decolonial reading of the Zimbabwean history curriculum as an exemplar of how knowledge and pedagogy could be reframed as the basis for curricular justice in a global imaginary that is predicated on the epistemic hegemony of the Global North. The study which is framed as a conceptual research article introduces and argues for undoing "historicide" as a heuristic within the broader scope of the epistemic decolonial turn. The Zimbabwean history curriculum, as a unit of analysis, is referenced to exemplify entrapment within the Cartesian paradigm of knowing, despite the country's political independence. The argument developed is that history curricula that do not interrogate the geography and biography of knowledge entrench the hegemonic narrative of the coloniality of power and by extension colonial historiography. The paper suggests that the way out of the epistemic quandary that pervades the Zimbabwean history curriculum entails re-envisioning curricular practices in ways that ensure the emergence of a pluriverse in which we reclaim, restitute and legitimate our knowledges and histories, and affirm our ontological densities as equal to those of the Global North.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, Historiography, History Instruction, Social Justice, Developing Nations, Indigenous Knowledge, Secondary School Curriculum, Epistemology, African Culture
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Zimbabwe
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