The Problem with decolonisation Jonathan Jansen

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Jonathan Jansen, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State, recipient of Stanford’s Alumni Excellence in Education Award, an author and public intellectual with multiple honorary doctorates and a reputation as a ‘healer’, delivers a lunchtime lecture on the problem with decolonisation.

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@thulanintisana6977 Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

fundamental ontological questions such as?

@ididormichalec8276 3 жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@GershanBarnardNorman 11 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.

@KeithMakank3 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@RashmikaLikesBooks 4 жыл бұрын

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

@GershanBarnardNorman 11 ай бұрын

Meaning?

@renierlindeque9387 3 жыл бұрын

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

@standowner6979 8 күн бұрын

Why do you comment the same thing on all decolonization videos? P.S.: you're incorrect

@basoh001 Жыл бұрын

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

@olsaffa7679 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jacquelinehabana2387 Жыл бұрын

At what point does a settler become native.

@GershanBarnardNorman 11 ай бұрын

This is a deep and revelatory question.

@tise-zn 10 ай бұрын

Never

@smishize 5 күн бұрын

I just wasted an hour of my life trying to find some useful substance in this lecture.

@jacquelinehabana2387 Жыл бұрын

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

@GershanBarnardNorman 11 ай бұрын

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

@marhobane3040 4 жыл бұрын

"...[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.