Decolonising our Institutions - A Conversation with Prof. Jonathan Jansen

How are the knowledge and skills that we choose to teach or not
teach implicated in the power structures and political histories
of the places in which we live?


Professor Jonathan Jansen
(⁠https://www.jonathanjansen.org/⁠ ) is Distinguished
Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South
Africa. He is currently President of the South African Academy of
Science and the Knight-Hennessey Fellow at Stanford University
(2020).


In his work, Professor Jansen explores how we keep radical ideas
alive in bureaucratic structures. Is there a destination we
arrive at called a decolonised curriculum or is it an ongoing
process of meeting power structures and institutionalised biases?
What's the role of language in the decolonising process if we
can't even communicate with each other? What is the role of
education in constructing national identities in ways that are
inclusive of the diversity of people in most communities?


A selection of his most recent books:


Decolonisation in Universities: The Politics of Knowledge (2019)
-
https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Decolonisation_in_Universities/efWADwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 


The Decolonization of Knowledge: Radical Ideas and the Shaping of
Institutions in South Africa and Beyond [with Cyrill A. Walters]
(2022) -
https://www.google.fr/books/edition/The_Decolonization_of_Knowledge/KNduEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 


Corrupted: A study of chronic dysfunction in South African
universities (2023) -
https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Corrupted/saeUEAAAQBAJ





Social Links


X: @JJ_Stellies - https://twitter.com/JJ_Stellies⁠


LinkedIn: @jonathan-jansen -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-jansen-543123b1/