| Owner: |
Lyndall E. Kemm-Stols
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| Owner Email: |
lyndallk@dut.ac.za
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| Paper Title: |
Exploring How Colonial Legacies Are Re(produced) in Admission Criteria of South African Universities of Technology
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| Session Title: |
Modernity, Coloniality, and Indigenous Knowledges
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| Paper Type: |
Virtual Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
5/4/2023
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| Presentation Location: |
Chicago, IL
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| Descriptors: |
Admissions, Higher Education
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| Methodology: |
Qualitative
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| Author(s): |
Lyndall E. Kemm-Stols, Durban University of Technology; Roxana Chiappa, Universidad de Tarapaca
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| Unit: |
SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education
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| Abstract: |
The South African student Fallist movements in 2015 demonstrated dissatisfaction with university efforts to redress historical inequalities. Since then, decolonising efforts have focused on curricular and teaching practices. This paper aims to examine the mechanisms through which colonial hierarchies get (re)produced in university structures and cultures with a particular focus on the criteria of admission to Universities of Technology (UoTs). UoTs remain under-examined but have made significant contributions to widening access in South Africa with less stringent admission requirements.
Drawing from a conceptual framework that recognises the interplay between coloniality and neoliberalism, I analyse national and institutional minimum admission policies to identify mechanisms through which colonial hierarchies are (re)produced in admission criteria at UoTs.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/2013443
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