Teaching and Learning Research Seminar, 5 July 2021

Speaker:  Prof. Kathy Luckett

The Stellenbosch University Teaching Fellows would like to invite the University teaching and learning community to a virtual research seminar by Prof. Kathy Luckett (University of Cape Town) on Microsoft Teams.

Prof. Luckett will be speaking on critical realism and the role of reflection in higher education teaching and learning. She will focus on Margaret Archer's concept of meta-reflexivity[1] in relation to decolonising the curriculum, drawing the theory through to practical examples.

Prof. Luckett will speak for approximately 30 minutes after which there will be ample time for questions and discussion.

Date:  5 July 2021

Time:  14:00 – 15:30

Link for the Microsoft Teams meeting:  Click here to join the meeting

In preparation for the seminar, you might like to look at the following article and chapter:

• Luckett, K. 2016. Curriculum contestation in a post-colonial context: a view from the South. Teaching in Higher Education, 21(4): 415-428. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13562517.2016.1155547?needAccess=true
• Luckett, K., Morreira, S. & Baijnath, M. 2019. Decolonizing the Curriculum: Recontextualization, Identity and Self-critique in a Post-apartheid University. In Quinn, L. (ed.). Reimagining Curriculum: Spaces for Disruption. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media. Pp. 23–44.

Prof. Kathy Luckett is Director of the Humanities Education Development Unit, Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Development, and associate staff member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She teaches and supervises on the School of Education's Masters in Higher Education Studies and in the Department of Sociology. Her research interests are: higher education policy around equity, access and language; sociology of knowledge and curriculum studies with a focus on the Humanities, Africana, decolonial and postcolonial studies and research methods that apply social realism to educational evaluation.

More information about publications by Prof. Luckett is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w41PoXIAAAAJ&hl=en .

Enquiries: Karin Cattell-Holden (kcattell@sun.ac.za)

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[1] Archer, Margaret S. 2012. The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity. Cambridge (UK), New York: Cambridge University Press.

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