On decolonising teaching practices, not just the syllabus: Student protests dubbed #FeesMustFall in 2016 in Pretoria. Cornel van Heerden/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images In South Africa, student calls for free, quality, decolonised higher education have coincided with demands for the transformation of canons, curricula and pedagogies. At the height of the protests assembled around the #FeesMustFall movement …
America’s right is lobbying against South Africa’s sex education syllabus: Javier Cruz Acosta/SHUTTERSTOCK Conservative “pro-family” advocacy groups with US ties are targeting increasingly inclusive sex education lesson plans being developed by the South African education department as part of the life orientation curriculum. Three groups in particular are vehemently opposed to the new content. They …
The Syllabus as Cultural Artifact | Workshop for the Certificate of Innovation in College Teaching – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-05-04 13:00:00 in United States This 2-hour, interactive workshop, facilitated by Jaime Wood from OAI, will delve into the cultural implications in your syllabus and how those implications may affect your students. …