Curriculum As Cultural Practice: Postcolonial Imaginations - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802090788 ISBN 13 : 9780802090782

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2006

Synopsis

Initiatives that deconstruct and challenge the dominance of Western cultural knowledge in curriculum are gaining momentum, and though some of the most potent challenges come from the field of postcolonial theory, the implications of these challenges for theorizing curriculum have not been fully explored. Curriculum as Cultural Practice aims to revitalize current discourses of curriculum research and reform from a postcolonial perspective. Yatta Kanu brings together an impressive list of scholars to interrogate the dominance of Western European knowledge, cultural production, representation, and dissemination in education, and to promote critical, democratic, and ethical practices in curriculum design. Contributors examine current curriculum from a variety of different perspectives including subalternity, indigenous knowledges and spirituality, critical ontology, biolinguistic diversity, postnationalism, transnationalism, globalization, and the West African concept of Sankofa. Each of these unique perspectives frame the postcolonial condition and reflect changing educational relations, practices, and institutional arrangements.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yatta Kanu is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802090788
• ISBN 13: 9780802090782
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Éditeur: Kanu Yatta
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