Knowledge Beyond Colour Lines: Towards repurposing knowledge generation in South African higher education

Knowledge remains timely in education. The need for academics to contemplate its relevance, worth, use and everything in-between deems a continuous intellectual project, rather than a conundrum to be solved. This book takes the South African context by the horns as it challenges the often dormant and traditionalist ways in which higher education spaces see knowledge. Through original research and the voices of academics and students, this book argues for repurposing knowledge generation, knowledge sharing and critical pedagogy so that more inclusive teaching and learning environments can be both imagined and sustained. The contentious tensionalities that this creates for LoLT and SoTL, in particular, are unlocked so as to trouble the South African higher education landscape with the intent to proffer alternative pathways for a knowledge beyond colour lines.
Prof Shan Simmonds (PhD)
NWU

This edited volume bristles with fresh scholarly approaches and insights of an emergent generation of engaged scholars grappling with the issues and problems of higher education in South Africa. The issues dealt with here are varied and encompassing. They are treated with intellectual delicacy and probing sensitivity, articulacy, informed data and bold conclusions. They serve well!
Prof. Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of the
Western Cape, and Founder of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society

Monwabisi Knowledge Ralarala is a professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape. He held previous positions as director at the Fundani Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT); the Language Centre at the University of Fort Hare; and the Research and Policy Development for the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities. He was a lecturer at University Stellenbosch's Department of African Languages. Apart from being a Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust alumnus, Monwabisi Ralarala is the 2017 recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism. He holds two PhDs (Universities of Stellenbosch and Free State respectively) on persuasion in African languages and language practice (emphasis on forensic linguistics). His research interests are quite diverse but follow three lines: language rights and multilingualism in higher education; forensic linguistics; and translation studies. Monwabisi Ralarala has held visiting scholarships nationally and internationally for purposes of teaching and research. He has also published articles and book chapters, mainly in forensic linguistics and translation studies. He co-edited African Language and Language Practice Research in the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Themes and Perspectives (2017, CASAS), and New Frontiers in Forensic Linguistics: Themes and Perspectives in Language and Law in Africa and Beyond (2019, AFRICAN SUN MeDIA). He is the founder and chief series editor of Studies in forensic linguistics: Language and the law in South Africa and beyond.

Associate Professor Salochana Lorraine Hassan is employed as Head of Department of the Academic Staff Development Unit at Fundani Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Previously, she worked as Deputy Director at the University of Botswana's Teaching and Learning Centre in the Centre for Academic Development. She also worked at the prestigious St George's University of London Medical Faculty for a year, and she facilitated a one-week assessment workshop in Dubai. Before moving into academic staff development, she worked in the medical field as a lecturer, both in biochemistry and physiology. Her current research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, problem-based learning, and academic development, areas in which she has published widely and presented papers at national and international conferences, for example, in Florida, Lima, Bergen, Trondheim, Gaborone, Rome, Bolzano, Valencia, Istanbul, Auckland, Hong Kong, Perth and South Africa. She has, and is currently, supervising postgraduate students. She coordinates and facilitates the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education module of the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; she also facilitates the scholarship of teaching and learning programme that she designed and coordinates. She also designed the Teaching Development Programme that equips new academics with the knowledge and skills for effective pedagogical practice. She developed the teaching and learning policy for the University of Botswana; and reviewed the policy on student feedback on teaching and courses for CPUT. She holds a PhD in education (University of Pretoria); MSc in biochemistry (University of KwaZulu-Natal); and a Master's in education (UNISA).

Rajani Naidoo is a professor and Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management at the University of Bath; Unesco chair of Higher Education Management and visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. A graduate of the Universities of Cambridge, UCL Institute of Education, and KwaZulu-Natal, she researches transformation in higher education, focusing on competition and markets; new forms of imperialism, social justice; and the contribution of universities to the global good. She has delivered keynotes in a wide range of countries and presented the 2016 Annual Worldviews lecture in Canada. She has acted as an expert advisor to international bodies and has participated in research programmes relating to social justice, the public good and the academic profession. She sits on the European Foundation for Management Development and Editorial board's research and development steering committee, including the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, and the International Journal of Sociology of Education. She co-edits the book series, Global Higher Education (Palgrave/Macmillan) and African Higher Education Dynamic Series (AHED) (African Minds).