Gobbledegook surrounding decolonisation

Perennial buzzword is a misunderstood concept, writes

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Decolonisation, the perennial buzzword that has cost the hard-working taxpayer millions of rands in destroyed university infrastructure, is something that nobody has got the faintest idea what it means in practical terms.

Professor Behari-Leak calls it an “abstract concept” that needs to be discussed. More like a conjectural concept, if you ask me.

At a meeting of academics at Wits University, intellectuals decided that since “students have raised the issue”, it must be dealt with.

So, if students didn’t raise the issue, it wouldn’t have received any attention at all.

Academics don’t seem to be very motivated.

Prof Rajendra Chetty said: “Decolonising education meant moving out of the ‘colonial mode’ in why and how things are done”.

What is the “colonial mode”? Please explain in real terms.

Chetty goes on to say: “We’re replicating apartheid.”

Really! In what way? Teaching and learning is the same throughout the world.

Critical thinking is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. How can this be renewed?

What is a “decolonised and transformed curriculum”? Nobody has yet given a practical example of either.

Once again, a load of hogwash that is going nowhere.