Research that is real and utopian: Indigenous knowledge as a resource to revitalise high school poetry.

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dc.contributor.authorBotha, L.
dc.contributor.authorDe Villiers, P.
dc.contributor.authorMaungedzo, R.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-16T12:45:17Z
dc.date.available2022-03-16T12:45:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis article presents the reflections of a research team from the ZAPP-IKS project. ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project) undertook a three-year NRF-funded research project titled "Reconceptualising Poetry Education for South African Classrooms through Infusing Indigenous Poetry Texts and Practices". The research on which we report here was undertaken as part of that project. The team consists of an English teacher, a poet and an academic. Together, they attempted a research intervention at a Johannesburg secondary school. The article presents their reflections on the challenges, successes and potentials of the attempted research intervention, which was intended to energise and inspire the teaching of English poetry by drawing from and developing indigenous knowledges and principles. Presented as a play, a praise poem and a conventional academic analysis by the school-based teacher, the university-based poet, and the university-based academic, respectively, the article offers diverse analyses as an illustration of how research relationships may be understood, experienced and represented in various ways. These analyses draw implicitly and explicitly on conceptualisations of indigeneity and indigenous knowledges, as well as decoloniality, with the conventional academic analysis making use of Erik Olin Wright's concept of real utopias to frame its understanding of the project and the other two perspectives on it. Together they invite readers to challenge and transform the conventions that govern educational practices, research and representation, but caution against naïve idealism when doing so.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2022en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBotha, L., & De Villiers, P., & Maungedzo, R. (2020). Research that is real and utopian: Indigenous knowledge as a resource to revitalise high school poetry. Education as Change, 24 (N/A), 1 – 25en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1947-9417
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32811
dc.journal.issue1en_ZA
dc.journal.titleEducation as Changeen_ZA
dc.journal.volume24en_ZA
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dc.rights© The Author(s) 2020en_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.titleResearch that is real and utopian: Indigenous knowledge as a resource to revitalise high school poetry.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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