Curriculating from the black archive – marginality as novelty

dc.contributor.authorKumalo, S.H. (Siseko)
dc.contributor.emailjdd@up.ac.za
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-01T05:40:00Z
dc.date.available2021-04-01T05:40:00Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe Black Archive is constitutive of works of literato such as JT Jabavu, Nontsizi Mgqwetho, the artist Gerard Bhengu, and musicians like Busi Mhlongo. This collective resource, which should play a crucial role in curriculating, compels us to consider two questions when rethinking Philosophy curricula: First, pedagogically, how does the epistemic access that the Black Archive affords our context facilitate justice? Second, and importantly, how does it help us in achieving justice? I, here, answer these questions in three moves. First, I consider certain key propositions; namely that decolonisation facilitates epistemic access, and that epistemic access in turn facilitates justice (historical, epistemic, and social). Second, I demonstrate how these propositions require the Black Archive (in South Africa) in order to be held as valid. I demonstrate this claim in Philosophy using Dumile Feni’s African Guernica, and in Curriculum Studies, through analysing W. W. Gqoba’s Ingxoxo Enkulu Ngemfundo. I conclude by prescriptively outlining uses for/of the Black Archive, guarding against misappropriations that derail justice as I treat it, safeguarding this corpus from epistemic arrogance that maintains that knowledge is valid only insofar as it is developed by white scholars.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPolitical Sciencesen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://cristal.epubs.ac.za/index.php/cristal/indexen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKumalo, S.H. 2020, 'Curriculating from the black archive – marginality as novelty', Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 111-132.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2310-7103 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.14426/cristal.v8i1.252
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/79146
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_ZA
dc.rights© This publication is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.en_ZA
dc.subjectBlack Archiveen_ZA
dc.subjectDumile Fenien_ZA
dc.subjectEpistemic Accessen_ZA
dc.subjectNatural Justiceen_ZA
dc.subjectPedagogyen_ZA
dc.subjectWilliam Wellington Gqoba (1840-1888)en_ZA
dc.titleCurriculating from the black archive – marginality as noveltyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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