Curriculum Theory, Curriculum Theorising, and the Theoriser: The African Theorising Perspective

Curriculum studies is at the core of the educational endeavour and informs what happens in every educational institution. As a result of its criticality or primacy, every educational practitioner appears to claim expertise in curriculum matters and what direction the field should take. In Africa, the curriculum practitioner has been given little or no space to theorise and orient the future of the field in Africa. Instead, European, and American curriculum theorisers have been allowed to exert a marked influence on the nature and direction of African theoretical and philosophical underpinnings. This situation raises fundamental questions about the future of education in Africa and this volume explores and answers these questions relating to curriculum theory, theorising and the theoriser by breaking traditions and experimenting on alternative approaches and pathways.

Contributors are: Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen, Lynn Biggs, Eunice Champion, Taryn Isaacs De Vega, Kehdinga George Fomunyam, Nadaraj Govender, Angela James, Simon Bheki Khoza, Noma China Kubashe, Nehemiah Latolla, Jacqui Lück, Dumisa Celumusa Mabuza, Simeon Maile, Suriamurthee Maistry, Makhulu A. Makumane, Zvisinei Moyo, Cedric Bheki Mpungose, Pascal Nadal, Blanche Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, Christopher Ndlovu, Emily Mangwaya Ndlovu, Nellie Ngcongo-James, Deirdre Pratt, Mukhtar Raban, Nolundi Radana, Makhosazana Edith Shoba, Mahlapahlapana Themane, Molaodi Tshelane and Denise Zinn.

Kehdinga George Fomunyam, PhD (2015), University of KwaZulu-Natal, is a Senior Researcher and Curriculum Scholar at Durban University of Technology. He is a prolific multiple award-winning researcher who has published more than 50 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters. He recently edited Decolonising Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation and Internationalisation (African Sun Media, 2019).

Simon Bheki Khoza , PhD (2008), University of KwaZulu-Natal, is a Distinguished Teacher and Associate Professor: Education and Curriculum Studies with Educational Technology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, RSA. He has graduated more than 70 PhD/MED students and published in local and international journals.