Higher Education in the melting pot: Emerging discourses of the 4IR and Decolonisation

Volume editor

Felix Maringe

Synopsis

The idea for this book emerged from the Education Deans Forum (EDF) meeting held in Johannesburg in 2018. The forum discussed the twin issues of the 4IR and Decolonisation and how these were likely to impact the future development of Higher Education in South Africa. Essentially, this book provides scholarly analyses of a range of possible impacts of the two discourses. On the one hand, the discourses are discussed as representing convergences and divergences in relation to their epistemological, ontological, axiological and methodological assumptions. On the other, they are portrayed as competing for dominance in the contemporary and future discourses in Higher Education.

As a scholarly compilation of high-end research, the book is a must-read resource for academics generally and those in teacher education disciplines particularly. Issues of the automation of academic workspaces, the impact of digital divides, the opportunities and constraints of the technologisation of curricula, pedagogies, teaching and learning and the intractable challenges of remote modalities of university instruction are dealt with by some of the leading thinkers in the South African academies.

Chapters

Chapter 1
Clash of ideologies in post-colonial education systems: Convergences and divergences

Felix Maringe, Amasa P Ndofirepi, Ruksana Osman
Section 1: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and teacher education in South Africa
Chapter 2
Imperatives of situating teacher and higher education in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Simon M Dlamini, Anass Bayaga, George Moyo
Chapter 3
Foregrounding the complex dance of human relating and interacting in teacher development for Education 4.0

Ansie E Kitching, Karen S Collett, Lynne N Damons
Chapter 4
Access in Higher Education: Reimagining education for the underprivileged groups in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Otilia F Chiramba, Elizabeth S Ndofirepi
Chapter 5
Enhancing 21st-century skills through online facilitation

Mari van Wyk, Kimera Moodley, Carla Coetzee, Ankie Robberts
Chapter 6
The myth of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for teacher education

Ian Moll
Section 2: Decolonisation and teacher education in South Africa
Chapter 7
From colonisation to self-colonisation: Efficacy of translanguaging as a socially just decolonising pedagogy

Erasmos Charamba
Chapter 8
Decolonisation and the aims and purposes of teacher education

Oluwatoyin A Ajani, Chinaza Uleanya
Chapter 9
The affordances of open educational resources and student-centred open pedagogy for the decolonisation of teacher education in South Africa

Jako Olivier
Chapter 10
Teacher education in the melting pot: Closing thoughts to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and decolonisation in higher education in South Africa

Felix Maringe, Otilia F Chiramba