Sub-theme 2: Reimagining Knowledge: Blending Traditional and Innovative Approaches in Higher Education
This sub-theme explores how higher education can honour indigenous knowledge, oral traditions, and multilingual realities while embracing emerging technologies and pedagogies:
Just as the aloe’s gel bridges body and remedy, higher education must bridge past and future, indigenous and digital, memory and momentum. True innovation honours where we’ve come from while shaping where we’re going.
- Tradition Meets Technology: Using augmented reality (AR) to teach abstract or complex concepts through oral histories and case-based simulations.
- Backwards Design Meets Ubuntu: Designing inclusive, culturally rooted curricula that reflect community values and co-creation with students.
- Multimodal Meaning-Making: Encouraging expression through drawing, movement, home languages, and digital tools (e.g., voice-to-text) in multilingual classrooms.
- Translanguaging in Education: Classroom practices that support students’ linguistic resources for learning.
- Decolonising Assessments: From exams to culturally responsive assessments like storytelling, performance, and crafting.
- Reflections on Teaching and Learning: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), student-lecturer reflections on pedagogical practice.
- Postgraduate Supervision: Innovative and decolonial approaches to postgraduate mentorship and supervision.
- Decolonising Assessments: Incorporating indigenous practices and alternative value systems into assessments.
From root to remedy - blending tradition with transformation.
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