- Title
- Neoliberalism and curriculum in higher education: a post-colonial analyses
- Creator
- Gyamera, Gifty Oforiwaa; Burke, Penny Jane
- Relation
- Teaching in Higher Education Vol. 23, Issue 4, p. 450-467
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1414782
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- In an era of internationalisation and globalisation, neoliberal agendas have now become important aspects of many institutional and national governments' higher education policy. A major aspect of these neoliberal agendas is their impact on the curriculum. This paper critically examines the impact of neoliberal agendas on curriculum through a postcolonial and decolonising lens, drawing on research conducted in the African context to illuminate the theoretical analysis presented. Drawing on 48 semi-structured interviews and documentary analyses across three public universities in Ghana, we examine the relationship between neoliberal agendas, neo-colonialism and curriculum imperatives in African higher education. The analysis illuminates the ways that hegemonic discourses connected to neoliberal agendas re-privilege Western-oriented values and perspectives and impact the curriculum changes in African higher education institutions.
- Subject
- curriculum; internationisation; postcolonial theory; decolonisation; neoliberalism; marketisation; neo-colonisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1443724
- Identifier
- uon:42083
- Identifier
- ISSN:1356-2517
- Language
- eng
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