Postcolonialism and Education Challenging Traditions and Disrupting Boundaries

by Mulenga, Derek C. C.

• ISBN13: 9780312295356
• ISBN10: 0312295359
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Postcolonialism and Educationbrings together the essays of established contributors and emergent scholars who provide a critical exploration and assessment of the relevance of postcolonialism foreducation research and practice. The quality of the essays combined with a relay of topics explored by different writers provides exciting and compellinganalyses of the significance of postcolonial theory for local, nationaland international education theory, practice, and policy.Postcolonialism and Educationpromotes a dialogue about how we can harness and use the rich and almost subversive insights of postcolonialism for learning, teaching,curriculum and research. Engaging well-known ideas as well as unexploredareas of interest,Postcolonialism and Educationdeepens our understanding and stimulates alternative and radical analyses thatinterrogate and disrupt traditional knowledges and preconceptions abouteducation. This an essential collection that theorists, practitioners,administrators and students within education and beyond will not want tobe without.

Author Biography

Derek C. Mulenga is Assistant Professor of Adult Education, Instructional Systems and Workforce Education and Development, Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor of Globalization and Lifelong Education: Critical Perspectives.

Table of Contents

Section One: Postcolonial Theory and Education

Situating Postcolonialism in Education--Derek C Mulenga

Reception History and Postcolonial Critique--David Plotkin

Limits of Liberatory Pedagogy: A Postcolonial Reading of Resistance and Border Pedagogy in the Work of Henry Giroux--Kanishka Chowdhury

Rethinking Indigenous Education: Culturalism, Colonialism and Politics of Knowing--Ladi Semali

Pedagogies and Difference: Rethinking Education for Social Practice--Peter Trifonas

Section Two: Postcolonialism and Educational Practice

The Book and the Bazzar: Navigating the Postcolonial in Literary Studies--Bishnupriya Ghosh

Postcolonial Literatures and the Politics of Representation in School Programs--Ingrid Johnson

Snakes and Ladders: Ethical Issues in Conducting Research in a Postcolonial Context--Mary McKeever

Traces and Mappings: Revising Identity through Performance--Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

Section Three: Education in Postcolonial Contexts

Alterity/Identity: A Postcolonial Critique of Education Policies and Practices in the USA--Sandra Cole McNaught

Postcolonial Access to Knowledge: Issues and Responsibilities--John Willinsky

Revisiting Mwalimu Nyerere: Education and Postcolonialism in Africa--Derek C. Mulenga

Literacy, Globalization, and Nomadic Subjects: Postcolonial Approaches and Possibilities in Literacy Education in South/North America--David Hemphill & Liliana Olmos