• Research in Education (RSE4801)

• History of Education
• History Education
• School History

• Africanisation
• Decolonisation
• History
• History Education
• History of Education
• Queer theorisations

Selected Research Publications

• Hlatshwayo, N.M., Adendorff, H., Blackie, M., Fataar, A., & Maluleka, P. (2022). Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for university transformation in South Africa. London: Routledge.

Books chapters:

• Maluleka, P. (2025). Decolonial Love as a Pedagogical Approach in Adult Education: A Global South Perspective. In: Vanderheiden, E., Mayer, CH., Barcelos, A.M.F. (eds) Pedagogical Love in Adult Education. Springer, Cham. 
• Maluleka, P & Ndumeya, N. (2024). Towards a Decolonized Assessment for History Teaching and Learning in Post-Apartheid South Africa. In: Boadu, G., Oppong, C.A. (eds) History Education in Africa: Research, Perspectives and Practices. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Ndumeya, N & Maluleka, P. (2024). Can History Teaching Contribute Towards Saving the Planet? Reflections on the Value of Including Environmental History in the Zimbabwean Advanced Level History Curriculum. In: Boadu, G., Oppong, C.A. (eds) History Education in Africa: Research, Perspectives and Practice Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61388-3_3
• Hlatshwayo, N.M., Adendorff, H., Blackie, M., Fataar, A., & Maluleka, P. (2022). Introducing decolonising knowledge and knowers. In N.M. Hlatshwayo., H. Adendorff., M. Blackie., A. Fataar., and P. Maluleka (eds), Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for university transformation in South Africa. London: Routledge.
• Maluleka, P., and Ramoupi, N.L.L. (2022). Towards a decolonised School History Curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa through enacting Legitimation Code Theory. In N.M. Hlatshwayo., H. Adendorff., M. Blackie., A. Fataar., and P. Maluleka (eds), Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for university transformation in South Africa. London: Routledge.

• Maluleka, P. (2024). Ageism and gatekeeping: My experiences as an early career academic at a historically black university in South Africa. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 12(2): 60-81.
• Maluleka, P., & Godsell, S. (2024). The Continued Absence of the LGBTIQA+ Community in School History Textbooks in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Yesterday & Today Journal, 3(1): 37-61:
• Maluleka, P. (2024). The Earth is what we all have in Common: Valorizing Environmental Knowledge in the History Curriculum in South Africa. Global South Perspectives Journal, 2(1): 1-19.
• Maluleka, P. (2023). Teaching and learning sensitive and controversial topics in history through and with decolonial love. Yesterday & Today Journal, 29(1), 30–51.
• Maluleka, P & Ledwaba, L. T. (2023). Attempts to (re)capture the school history curriculum? Reflections on the History Ministerial Task Team’s Report. Yesterday & Today Journal, 29(1), 72–99.
• Maluleka, P & Mathebula, T. (2022). Trends in African philosophy and their implications for the Africanisation of the South Africa history caps curriculum: a case study of Odera Oruka philosophy. Yesterday & Today Journal, (27), 65-89.
• Maluleka, P. (2021). Teaching in the time of crisis: A decolonial take of my experiences of online teaching at a rural university in South Africa. African Perspectives of Research in Teaching & Learning, (5)1: 78-94.
• Maluleka, P. (2021). Fallism as decoloniality: Towards a decolonised School History Curriculum in post-colonial-apartheid South Africa. Yesterday & Today Journal, (26)1: 68-91.

National Conferences

• Presented a research paper, entitled: Attempts to (re)capture the school history curriculum? Reflections on the history ministerial task team’s report, at the 37th South African Society for History Teaching Conference hosted by the University of Johannesburg, 3-4 October 2023.
• Co-presented a research paper alongside Lesiba Tumishang Ledwaba, entitled: Those are for Whites”: Students’ perceptions towards museums as tools for/of teaching decolonised heritage studies, at the 20th Annual National Oral History Conference hosted by the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa in partnership with the Oral History Association of South Africa, and Gauteng Provincial Archives, Maropeng Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Centre, 9 – 13 October 2023.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: Why should university teachers consider centering decolonial love in their teaching and research work at the 10th South African Education Research Association hosted by Rhodes University, Blue Lagoon Hotel, East London, 31 October - 3 November 2023.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: Teaching and Learning Sensitive and Controversial Issues or Topics in History through and with Decolonial Love at the 2022 Annual National Doctoral Conference hosted by National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg, 1 – 3 November 2022.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: Teaching and Learning Sensitive and Controversial Issues or Topics in History through and with Decolonial Love at the 34th Annual South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) Conference, entitled: ‘History Teaching in and beyond the formal curriculum’, hosted at the University of Stellenbosch, Robben Island Museum and Genadendal Museum, Western Cape, 29 – 30 September 2022.
• Co-presented a reflection paper with Bhengu, S., entitled: Voices of Graduate Students: Reflections on Supervision during the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa, at the 8th Postgraduate Supervision Conference hosted at the University of Stellenbosch from the 15th to the 18th of March 2022.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: Fallism as decoloniality: Towards a decolonised School History Curriculum in postcolonial-apartheid South Africa (20 October 2021), at the 4th African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika) Conference in conjunction with the University of Zambia, School of Education, Department of Language and Social Sciences Education (History Education Section). The Conference is titled: ‘The State of History Education in Africa’, and it will take place from Wednesday 20, Thursday 21, and Friday 22 October 2021.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: Is decolonial knowledge powerful knowledge? at the 2021 Virtual Annual National Doctoral Conference hosted by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, from the 2nd to 4th November 2021.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: Teaching in the Time of Crisis: A Decolonial Take of My Experiences of Online Teaching at a Rural University in South Africa, at the 2021 Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association Southern Africa (HELTASA) Conference, titled: ‘Sivela phi? Siphi? Siya phi? Shape-shifting: past experiences, current realities and future possibilities’. This took place from the 6th to the 10th of December 2021

International Conferences

• Presented a research paper, entitled: Voices from the Margins: History Educators views on the proposed decolonised school history curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa at the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Conference, Oxford Brookes University, 29 to 31 August 2024.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: The continued erasing of LGBTIQA+ histories in post-apartheid School History Curricula at the 5th African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika) International Conference hosted by the School of Education and the Department of Educational Communication and Technology, and the Department of History, Political Science and Archaeology, Kenyatta University, 2 – 4 August 2023.
• Presented a research paper, entitled: A personal anecdote of teaching and learning through and with decolonial love at a South African University at the International Conference “Negotiating the Fabric of the African University: Global Trends and Local Realities”, hosted by the University of Western Cape, University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University, 12 – 14 September 2023.
• Co-presented a research chapter with Ramoupi, N.L.L., entitled: Towards a decolonized School History Curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa through enacting Legitimation Code Theory (21 October 2021), at the 4th African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika) Conference in conjunction with the University of Zambia, School of Education, Department of Language and Social Sciences Education (History Education Section). The Conference is titled: ‘The State of History Education in Africa’, and it will take place from Wednesday 20, Thursday 21, and Friday 22 October 2021.
• Panel Chair on Researching Knowledge, decolonisation and the quest for inclusivity and Social Justice with Professor Aslam Fataar (Stellies); Dr Mlamuli Hlatshwayo (UKZN) & Dr Hanelie Adendorff (Stellies), at the Third International Legitimation Code Theory Conference, hosted at the University of the Witwatersrand – School of Education, Johannesburg, 1 – 5 July 2019. The discussion can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK9eQ3Lk_9M

• President, African Association for History Education (AHE-Afrika): 2025 – ongoing
• Project Manager, Decolonisation Group, Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA): 2025 – ongoing
• Ordinary Member, South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT).
• Ordinary Member, South African Education Research Association (SAERA)
• South African Council for Educators (SACE).

• Project name: Queering apartheid: Towards an inclusive post-apartheid school history curriculum
• Funder: National Research Foundation (Thuthuka Post-PhD Grant)
• Funding duration: 2025 – 2027

• Delivered a Keynote at the10th University of South Africa’s Decolonial Summer School held under the theme: Reflection, Disruption and the Realisation of Decolonial Futures: UNISA’s Decoloniality Summer School at 10 Years (2014-2024). The Keynote responded to the School’s overall theme. The School was hosted by the College of Human Sciences (CHS), 15 – 19 January 2024. The keynote can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj6btQHTpAI