Postcolonialism and education: challenging traditions and disrupting boundaries

This essential collection brings together the essays of established contributors and emergent scholars who provide a critical exploration and assessment ofthe relevance of postcolonialism for education research and practice. This isa book that theorists, practitioners and students within education will not want to be without. INDICE: SECTION I: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND EDUCATION Situating Postcolonialism in Education; D.C.Mulenga Reception History and Postcolonial Critique; D.Plotkin Limits of Liberatory Pedagogy: A Postcolonial Reading of Resistance and Border Pedagogy in the Work of Henry Giroux; K.Chowdhury Rethinking Indigenous Education: Culturalism, Colonialism and Politics of Knowing; L.Semali Pedagogies and Difference: Rethinking Education for Social Practice; P.Trifonas SECTION II: POSTCOLONIALISM AND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE The Book and the Bazzar: Navigating the Postcolonial in Literary Studies; B.Ghosh Postcolonial Literaturesand the Politics of Representation in School Programs; I.Johnson Snakes and Ladders: Ethical Issues in Conducting Research in a Postcolonial Context; M.McKeever Traces and Mappings: Revising Identity through Performance; K.Kochhar-Lindgren SECTION III: EDUCATION IN POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXTS Alterity/Identity: A Postcolonial Critique of Education Policies and Practices in the USA; S.Cole McNaught Postcolonial Access to Knowledge: Issues and Responsibilities; J.Willinsky Revisiting Mwalimu Nyerere: Education and Postcolonialism in Africa; D.C.Mulenga Literacy, Globalization, and Nomadic Subjects: Postcolonial Approaches and Possibilities in Literacy Education in South/North America; D.Hemphill & L.Olmos

• ISBN: 978-0-312-29535-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 28/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés