Teaching through and with decolonial love in a neoliberal South African University
The public university in South Africa continues to propagate capitalist, competitive and neoliberal agendas that are inconsistent with agendas that could be considered to be of public good. These market-orientated logics and discourses have compromised teaching in the university because of increased casualisation of faculty as a result of cost cutting and commodification of education meant to realise artificial efficiency. In this presentation, aided by coloniality and decoloniality as my preferred philosophical orientations, I propose decolonial love as one transformative pedagogical approach that university teachers can employ in the implementation of their mandate, which is to teach and educate students for the epistemic, human, social and public good.
About the speaker
Paul Maluleka is an Associate Professor of History (of) Education at the University of South Africa. His activism, research, supervision, and teaching are located along the fault lines of Africanisation, decolonisation, and queer theorisations, especially where school history is a concern. Professor Maluleka currently leads a three-year research project funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa, which investigates how the post-apartheid school history curricula could be queerised. He is also the incoming co-president of the African Association for History Education, which established in 2015 as a pioneering and now growing network of scholars and practitioners which aspires to connect individuals as well as local and national associations working on History Education across and beyond Africa.
