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- Title
Challenging the teaching of research methodologies in pursuit of epistemic and social justice in South Africa.
- Authors
Ramose, Mogobe; Baloyi, Lesiba
- Abstract
The unjustified violence of colonialism against the indigenous peoples of South Africa is the historical moment inaugurating the affirmation and exercise of the ethically South Africa to date is the subtle refinement - to an extent with the consent of some of the indigenous peoples conquered in the unjust wars of colonisation - of the affirmation and exercise of this ethically questionable "right of conquest". By virtue of this putative right, the successors in title to the conquest continue to define and delimit the meaning of experience, knowledge and truth for their benefit. This essay questions this existential condition on ethical grounds. It argues that the prevailing teaching of research methodologies is a reflection of the continued exercise of the questionable "right of conquest". This situation ought to change for the sake of epistemic and social justice in South Africa. To this end, this essay examines, from the standpoint of philosophy, the teaching of research methods in psychology, in particular, political psychology in South African universities. It argues that the content of this teaching ought to enter into a transformational dialogue with tsa semoya, being the psychology of the indigenous peoples conquered in the unjust wars of colonisation. The aim is to liberate both itself and the conqueror from the injustice of epistemological captivity.
- Subjects
EPISTEMICS; SOCIAL justice; RIGHT of conquest; PSYCHOLOGY; UBUNTU (Philosophy); INDIGENOUS peoples
- Publication
PINS: Psychology in Society, 2020, Issue 60, p9
- ISSN
1015-6046
- Publication type
Article