Ensuring Meaningful Access to Powerful Knowledge to Enable Success of Students from Rural Areas in the Field of Science in Higher Education: A Decolonial Perspective
Abstract:The dominant discourse in higher education which rather simplistically equates hard work with success, serves to privilege the already privileged, with their background in particular forms of knowledge and learning. The assumption that success in higher education could largely be explained through meritocracy based on hard work and bright minds only favors middle class students, globally, because of their privilege. This is because students’ enrollment in universities is linked to benefitting from powerful kno… Show more
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