The NWU Faculty of Humanities warmly invite you to submit proposals for the 2025 Teaching and Learning Colloquium.
Theme: Reimagining the Future of Humanities Knowledge and Pedagogy: Decoloniality, Technology and the Social Justice Imperative.
Aligned with North-West University’s commitment to decolonisation, Africanisation, and technological innovation, this colloquium seeks to advance transformative education that centres Afrocentric knowledge systems, equity, and forward-thinking pedagogies.
The event builds on key institutional policies, including:
- The 2018 Declaration on the Decolonisation of University Education, which calls for the reclamation of African epistemologies in academia.
- The NWU Technology in Education Policy, which emphasises the role of digital tools in democratising knowledge and addressing historical inequities.
Applicants are encouraged to consider these sub-themes when preparing their submission:
- Theoretical and epistemological foundations of Decolonisation
- Curriculum transformation: decolonial frameworks and emergent technologies
- Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), epistemic diversity, and the decolonised curriculum
- Leveraging digital tools and emergent technologies for decolonial and insurgent pedagogies
- Language and multilingual education
- Critical multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and decolonisation in education
- Pedagogy and Decolonial Teaching Practices
- Afrocentric and insurgent pedagogies
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 15 August 2025
Submission of Full papers: 31 August 2025
Colloquium: 9-11 September 2025
For more information, kindly contact Granny Mogotsi.