This is an open access book studying "the epistemological, ontological, axiological and methodological assumptions behind the ideologies of decolonisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)" as they play out in the context of a changing educational system in South Africa. In particular, write the authors, "we are centrally concerned with how the powerful ideologies of the 4IR, and the imperatives of decolonisation confront or complement each other in development trajectories of post-colonial countries." Readers here will not be surprised that the authors find "the world (the social world in particular) is not as orderly as we assume it to be... The connectedness of things, even in their diverse and oppositional ways is the fabric that holds systems together (and)... Diversity and deviance are the chief architects of change and transformation, much more so than are similarity and compliance." From these starting points, the book offers an extended treatment of what decolonization looks like in education in South Africa. See also this short introductory video.
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