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Sarah Godsell; Bongani Shabangu; Guy Primrose – Cogent Education, 2024
Assessment remains a power nexus in Higher Education, where remnants of coloniality pool. The power that assessment holds makes it an important site for decolonisation. The purpose of this article is to present an experiment, and open a discussion, on the decolonisation of assessment. We argue that bringing assessment into the decolonisation…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, Universities, Educational History, Power Structure
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Roth, Kenneth R., Ed.; Kumah-Abiwu, Felix, Ed.; Ritter, Zachary S., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
This edited volume explores and deconstructs the possibilities of higher education beyond its initial purpose. The book contextualizes and argues for a more robust interrogation of persistent patterns of campus inequality driven by rapid demographic change, reduced public spending in higher education, and an increasingly polarized political…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Democracy, Neoliberalism
Thompson, Mark E. – 1979
Individuals in general and educators in particular should be knowledgeable about and understand the social implications of contingency and freedom. Contingency--a possible or unforeseen occurrence--is interpreted in light of the unpredictability of nature which insures that people cannot be prepared for every possibility. Freedom is interpreted as…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Decision Making