Du Bois's Decolonial Pragmatism: Teaching Community Psychology Toward Epistemological Liberation

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 364-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Lomoki Lomotey-Nakon
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Teaching Community

Teaching Community Psychology as Community Engagement

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Fynn ◽  
Martin Terre Blanche ◽  
Eduard Fourie ◽  
Johan Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Teaching Community

Epistemological resistance towards diversality: teaching community psychology as a decolonial project

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronelle Carolissen ◽  
Hugo Canham ◽  
Eduard Fourie ◽  
Tanya Graham ◽  
Puleng Segalo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Cognitive Justice

In contexts of political instability and change, the value of disciplinary knowledges and the processes that constituted them is often questioned. Psychology is not exempt from this process. Little South African work has illustrated what teaching for decoloniality may mean in South African psychology. We draw on examples of curriculum design in community psychology from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Stellenbosch, three large South African public universities, in an attempt to surface what we regard as the decolonial frameworks that underpin their development and delivery. Capacities for reflexivity and the ability to hold multiple epistemologies encourage economies of knowledge that may prevent abyssal thinking, while contributing to cognitive justice and minimising opportunities for epistemicide. Some challenges to our pedagogy involve the potential for romanticising decoloniality.

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