Flourishing Together: Co-Learning as Leaders of a Multicultural South African Educational Research Community

Authors

  • Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan University of KwaZulu-Natal http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8858-8213
  • Theresa Chisanga Walter Sisulu-University
  • Thenjiwe Meyiwa University of South Africa
  • Delysia Norelle Timm Durban University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v20i3.1607

Keywords:

arts-informed research, collaborative research, creative analysis, self-study research, South Africa

Abstract

In South African public higher education, the miseducative legacies of the past weigh heavily. This article offers our learning as leaders of a multicultural community of university educators that seeks to contribute towards repairing the damages of a divided and discriminatory past by means of self-study research. Through a collaborative arts-informed analysis process, we have heard multiple perspectives from community participants and expressed our own learning in dialogue with theirs. This has enabled us to recognize shared qualities of caring, listening, and creativity as vital to a socially just reimagining of higher education communities.

Author Biographies

Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Associate Professor, School of Education

Theresa Chisanga, Walter Sisulu-University

Associate Professor, Department of Arts

Thenjiwe Meyiwa, University of South Africa

Vice-Principal: Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation,

Delysia Norelle Timm, Durban University of Technology

Office of the DVC Academic, Advisor: Special Projects

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Published

2018-10-25

How to Cite

Pithouse-Morgan, K., Chisanga, T., Meyiwa, T., & Timm, D. N. (2018). Flourishing Together: Co-Learning as Leaders of a Multicultural South African Educational Research Community. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 20(3), 102–125. https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v20i3.1607

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (2018): Open Theme Issue

Section

Praxis Articles (Peer-reviewed)

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