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Prof
Nkoane, Molebatsi
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Department: Educational Foundations
Research Interest(s): Sustainable learning environments
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- This scholarly piece proposes to disrupt the inequalities in the discourse that tends to subjugate ‘other’ forms of knowing and pushes these forms of knowing with vanity to the periphery in the corpus or pyramid of knowledge systems, and this regard, we zero in to rural epistemologies within the milieu of universities’ knowledge creation. Knowledge systems have variances or a dichotomy informed by lived experiences which are not the same. Dominant discourses have been assertive in knowledge systems and domesticated other parameters for the interpretation of realities as historically out-of-date, irrational, and pre-modern.Through decoloniality theory and Grand Afrikan narratives, we challenge the hegemony in the knowledge industry where the tendency is to perpetuate injustices in knowledge systems especially when coming from the global south, more so in rural contexts. A consciousness of this intellectual piece aims to make an argument that over and above the hegemonic discourses of the global north over ‘other’ forms of knowing, the boundaries could be ruptured in pursuance of equality and justice to ‘other’forms of knowing. We answer two questions; what is to decolonise the knowledge system in a higher institute, and how can rural knowledge gain access to mainstream knowledge production? This paper will probe difficult questions about hegemonic socio-political discourses in the knowledge industry, the line of argument is in pursuance of making an effort to refine, protect and defend ‘other’ knowledge systems and demystify knowledge as one thing that is presumed to be universal.
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