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Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo

Researcher at University of KwaZulu-Natal

Publications -  13
Citations -  69

Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo is an academic researcher from University of KwaZulu-Natal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Working class. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 11 publications receiving 37 citations. Previous affiliations of Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo include Rhodes University.

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Towards a critical re-conceptualization of the purpose of higher education: the role of Ubuntu-Currere in re-imagining teaching and learning in South African higher education

TL;DR: The 2015-2016 South African higher education students' movement proved historical for our country in bringing to our dinner tables: issues of higher education transformation and decolonisat... as discussed by the authors.
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Theorising the #MustFall Student Movements in Contemporary South African Higher Education: A Social Justice Perspective

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a brief historical and contextual environment that has contributed to the emergence of the student movement phenomenon in SAHE and introduce Fraser's social justice perspective, in offering us the theoretical and conceptual tools we need to look at the struggles and challenges that confront student movements, focusing in particular on the challenges that frustrate them in relating and interacting as peers on an equal footing in society.
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Ubuntu currere in the academy: a case study from the South African experience

TL;DR: In this article, the epistemic possibilities for transforming and decolonsiation in the Global South are discussed. But, the authors do not discuss the ethical demands for decoloniation.
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Views from the margins: Theorising the experiences of black working-class students in academic development in a historically white South African university

TL;DR: This article explored and theorised the complex experiences of black working-class South African students in an academic development program in a historically white higher education institution, and found that students' experiences of academic development are often complex and at times contradictory with some seeing the value of the programme, and others rejecting it and looking at it as an extension of their marginality in a HBCU.
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"We’ve been taught to understand that we don’t have anything to contribute towards knowledge": Exploring Academics’ understanding of decolonising curricula in higher education

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the academic understanding of decolonizing curricula in South African higher education and found that academia largely understand the decolonising of curricula as responding to the need to tackle and explicate the Eurocentric thought in curricula; re-centring African epistemic traditions and navigating what they refer to as the confusion, ambiguity and the discomfort of decolonialisation.