SESSION 4: What Education is Relevant: Transforming the Curricula?

28 June 2016 -28 June 2016 @ 08:45 - 09:00

Details

Date:
June 28, 2016
Time:
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM
Venue:
Barrat Lecture Theatre 2
Event Type:
Conference

Organizer

Sociology Department
Phone:
0466038363
Email:
B.Magoqwana@ru.ac.za

Chair: Antoinette Tolken-Smith

  1. Adam Cooper- The decolonized humanities curriculum imagined: a proposed research study of the texts students find meaningful and how lecturers choose readings. (Human Science Research Council)
  2. Emeka E Obioha, Nelly Sharpley, and Manapo Ntswebeane- Transformation of curricula in South African Universities: Pragmatic steps towards making teaching and research in sociology relevant in terms of content. (Walter Sisulu University)
  3. Yanda Bango- Exploring attitudes and perceptions about the knowledge acquisition process and experiences of Ngangelizwe youth graduates in the Eastern Cape, to understand the significance of their education: A Freirean approach. (Rhodes University)
  4. Michael Mohube- Decolonization of the South African education system: The emergence of Afrocentric curriculum and the impacts of Indigenous Knowledge Systems on transformation and curriculum development discourses. (University of Limpopo)

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