Professor Jansen is one of the country's leading academics, and although I get some of his points, I, however, think that his missing fundamental ontological questions.

@GershanBarnardNorman

8 ай бұрын

fundamental ontological questions such as?

Jansen's balance between academia and pragmatism is wonderful. He seems to be an unparalleled thinker in South Africa.

@GershanBarnardNorman

8 ай бұрын

Meaning?

We mistake knowledge as western, although it's roots were never western many of the schools of thought they used to build technology and philosophies they are all adopted and so for us to treat those things as belonging to them is actually a long worded way to adopt their ignorances of science.

Maybe, his point is interesting however he may have missed soome points in decolonizing methodology and thinking, if the attainment is so low maybe it is because education remains centred in a positivist approach silencing other ways of learning

@mo-kau-bere6133

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I get a sense he may be missing some points of decolonization.

@GershanBarnardNorman

8 ай бұрын

Which exact points was he missing? @@mo-kau-bere6133

@GershanBarnardNorman

8 ай бұрын

What is wrong with silencing other ways of learning? I’m asking because I suspect that your underlying assumption is that all ways of learning are equal. I look forward to hearing you describe these other ways of learning. Who knows, maybe I might learn something new from you.

"Everybody because they went to Sunday school believes they have something to say" Waze wadelela wendoda

When Europeans decoloniozed Roman eduction and thinking they went into a Dark Age

At what point does a settler become native.

@GershanBarnardNorman

8 ай бұрын

This is a deep and revelatory question.

@tise-zn

7 ай бұрын

Never

I am not a curriculum expert but I daresay you cannot adress knowledge production without adressing coloniality of being and power.

@GershanBarnardNorman

8 ай бұрын

Is there a point or a threshold at which coloniality and power become obsolete and irrelevant to the point you’re insinuating?

Why categorize knowledge according to origin or race, sex, etc. Usable knowledge isn't tainted because of where it came from or from who. Arab math is beautiful and to refuse using it because of your racism against Arab people does not make it not so.

@thekothamaga9970

Жыл бұрын

And that is no what decolonialism is, of course is understandable that comments like this arise.

@olsaffa7679

Жыл бұрын

@@thekothamaga9970 Dear Theko. Please come down to us and explain how "decolonializing" science at Cape Town University, by dropping Newton and introducing witchcraft (that's what the protesters claimed they wanted) is a step in the right direction. Why, they were asked, and I remember this lady (who taxpayers are most probably funding to study BSc there) saying that science needs to be "Africanized in Africa" and Newton was a white man.

@thekothamaga9970

Жыл бұрын

@@olsaffa7679 Decolonisation is not about replacing this with that, is not becoming more racist or a hater. It is not about rejecting the curriculum content. It is about recognizing that none is above the other. Anyway, what do you imply "introducing witchcraft"? And is ok if you don't want to answer. Lastly, if you find my contentions annoying, please pardon me it is not my intention. Let us grapple with decolonisation for the betterment of life for everyone in the society. Have a good night

"...[decolonial scholars] retreat into indigenisation, and flirt with superstition, and the reason for that, is [they] don't have something to say". Well, no shit.

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