Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498503756 ISBN 13 : 9781498503754

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in turn, a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university, in the US and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through and outside these sites of knowledge production-with local or global social movements-can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world.

As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is professor of sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and distinguished legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.

Anders Burman is associate professor at the Human Ecology Division at Lund University.

Tendayi Sithole teaches in the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa.

Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Ciudad Juárez.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498503756
• ISBN 13: 9781498503754
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Grosfoguel Ramón, Hernández Roberto, Velásquez Ernesto Rosen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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