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Curriculum as Contestation (Paperback)
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Curriculum as Contestation (Paperback)
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In 2015 a social movement swept across the South African higher
education sector fuelled by the anger of the 'born free'
generation, the students born into post-apartheid South Africa. The
movement found solidarity in other parts of the globe where the
past decade has witnessed the rise of student protests in the UK,
the US, Chile, Turkey and Hong Kong to name a few. While the
demands are specific to national contexts, the underlying obstacles
of economic, cultural and political access into higher education
are consistent. These protests have put a spotlight on the global
academy that, like the society of which it is a part, is
increasingly characterized by inequality. At its core these
movements call for a more socially just higher education system.
This call is profoundly dissonant to the dominant neoliberal
discourses currently shaping higher education. Against the backdrop
of these discourses there has been an unprecedented pressure on
higher education curricula. This edited collection is dedicated to
exploring what a socially just curriculum reform agenda might
involve. The authors share a commitment to socially just curricula
and a concern about the ways in which curricula are deeply
implicated in the processes of producing and reproducing
inequality. Each chapter opens up a different vista on the
contested curriculum space drawing on a range of theoretical tools
- Archer, Bernstein, Giroux, and Maton to name a few - to
illuminate the contestation. Perhaps even more importantly they
also draw on a range of voices from both inside and outside the
academy. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Teaching in Higher Education.
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