Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorBehari-Leak, Kasturi
dc.contributor.authorLeburu, Mosuwa Nemeya Prince
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-08T10:41:46Z
dc.date.available2025-09-08T10:41:46Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.date.updated2025-09-08T09:42:26Z
dc.description.abstractThis qualitative research study seeking to establish the structural and systemic inhibitors of decolonisation at a South African Private Higher Education Institution (PHEI), adopted a Critical and Social Realism theoretical framework while employing a critical discourse analytical approach. Working within an interpretive paradigm, the study gathered data through semi-structured interviews involving the PHEI lecturers whose agential association purposively placed them at vantage points to assess the structural and cultural elements that stunt the progression of transformation. The study established that the absence of institutional commitment to decolonisation informed the lecturers' peripheral influence in executing a decolonisation agenda. It was also established that the lecturers' perceptions of decolonisation did not progress beyond intellectual and academic pronouncements and as such, institutional structure and culture continue to inhibit decolonisation. That lack of depth on the part of lecturers compromised their competence to pronounce on apparent structural and racial configurations manifest in the institution. The study recommended further investigations that would triangulate the experiences of multiple stakeholders in a bid to propose a framework that would foreground decolonisation and curriculum change as a central concern.
dc.identifier.apacitationLeburu, M. N. P. (2025). <i>Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41718en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationLeburu, Mosuwa Nemeya Prince. <i>"Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2025. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41718en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLeburu, M.N.P. 2025. Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41718en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Leburu, Mosuwa Nemeya Prince AB - This qualitative research study seeking to establish the structural and systemic inhibitors of decolonisation at a South African Private Higher Education Institution (PHEI), adopted a Critical and Social Realism theoretical framework while employing a critical discourse analytical approach. Working within an interpretive paradigm, the study gathered data through semi-structured interviews involving the PHEI lecturers whose agential association purposively placed them at vantage points to assess the structural and cultural elements that stunt the progression of transformation. The study established that the absence of institutional commitment to decolonisation informed the lecturers' peripheral influence in executing a decolonisation agenda. It was also established that the lecturers' perceptions of decolonisation did not progress beyond intellectual and academic pronouncements and as such, institutional structure and culture continue to inhibit decolonisation. That lack of depth on the part of lecturers compromised their competence to pronounce on apparent structural and racial configurations manifest in the institution. The study recommended further investigations that would triangulate the experiences of multiple stakeholders in a bid to propose a framework that would foreground decolonisation and curriculum change as a central concern. DA - 2025 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Decolonisation KW - Critical Realism KW - Social Realism KW - Critical Discourse Analysis KW - Private Higher Education Institutions KW - Ontology KW - Epistemology KW - Axiology LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2025 T1 - Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa TI - Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41718 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/41718
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationLeburu MNP. Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2025 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41718en_ZA
dc.language.isoen
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Education
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectDecolonisation
dc.subjectCritical Realism
dc.subjectSocial Realism
dc.subjectCritical Discourse Analysis
dc.subjectPrivate Higher Education Institutions
dc.subjectOntology
dc.subjectEpistemology
dc.subjectAxiology
dc.titleInvestigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMEd
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