Online seminar series: What is the Global South and why it matters - Session 6

Teaching through and with love in a neoliberal South African University

Speaker: Professor Paul Maluleka, Associate Professor of History (of) Education, University of South Africa (UNISA)

The public university in South Africa continues to propagate capitalist, competitive and neoliberal agendas that are inconsistent with agendas that could be considered to be of public good. These market-orientated logics and discourses have compromised teaching in the university because of increased casualisation of faculty as a result of cost cutting and commodification of education meant to realise artificial efficiency. In this presentation, aided by coloniality and decoloniality as my preferred philosophical orientations, I propose decolonial love as one transformative pedagogical approach that university teachers can employ in the implementation of their mandate, which is to teach and educate students for the epistemic, human, social and public good.

About the speaker

Paul Maluleka is an Associate Professor of History (of) Education at the University of South Africa. His activism, research, supervision, and teaching are located along the fault lines of Africanisation, decolonisation, and queer theorisations, especially where school history is a concern. Professor Maluleka currently leads a three-year research project funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa, which investigates how the post-apartheid school history curricula could be queerised. He is also the incoming co-president of the African Association for History Education, which established in 2015 as a pioneering and now growing network of scholars and practitioners which aspires to connect individuals as well as local and national associations working on History Education across and beyond Africa.

About the seminar series

The series features speakers from across the world, drawn from social science and social work disciplines who explore how concepts related to the Global South impact policy and practice. The series will be of interest to academics, professionals, students, researchers and policy makers eager to diversify their knowledge and make their professional practice more inclusive. It would appeal to those working in the areas of criminal justice including prisons, probation services and policing, education, nursing, psychology, social science, sociology and social work.

The series is set up to encourage discussion and debate with time for a paper and discussion – so please come along and join the debate! The topics can be found on the Eventbrite link.

The seminar series is chaired by Dr Amy Duvenage and Professor Elaine Arnull, Southampton Solent University, who are happy to hear from you if you have any questions/comments:

elaine.arnull@solent.ac.uk

amy.duvenage@solent.ac.uk

Everyone is welcome – whether you are an expert in the area or wanting to hear what the Global South is and what ideas the speakers have about it.