African history in context: Toward a praxis of radical education

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dc.contributor.authorBenson, Koni
dc.contributor.authorGamedze, Asher
dc.contributor.authorKoranteng, Akosua
dc.date.accessioned02/07/2019 12:04
dc.date.available02/07/2019 12:04
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities � both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary contexts of struggle. First, the chapter examines the KYC�s historical context. Second, it looks at how KYC was deliberately rooted in the contemporary questions posed by the urgent political project of decolonisation � questions concerning how to decentre the university, how to liberate knowledge from the hierarchies that bind it, and how to imagine and practice collaborative radical education. The third part speaks to some of the contradictory potentialities of doing radical work in, or in affiliation to, a university. Through a reflection on the successes and limitations of KYC, we hope to contribute to conversations about the potential for different kinds of engagement, and different kinds of solidarity between the often-segregated spaces of schools, universities, and activist organisations.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBenson, K., Gamedze, A. & Koranteng, A. (2018). African history in context: toward a praxis of radical education.In: Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (eds.) History's School: Past Struggles and Present Realities. London: Routledge, and UKZN Press, 104-117.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9.78132E+12
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315163826
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/4693
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectDecolonising educationen_US
dc.subjectKnow Your Continent (KYC)en_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectAfrican historyen_US
dc.titleAfrican history in context: Toward a praxis of radical educationen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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