Decolonizing philosophies of education / / edited by Ali A. Abdi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Abdi, Ali A.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Philosophy of education basically deals with learning issues that attempt to explain or answer what we describe as the major questions of its domains, i.e., what education is needed, why such education, and how would societies undertake and achieve such learning possibilities. In different temporal...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Ali A. Abdi
• Decolonizing Philosophies of Education: An Introduction / Ali A. Abdi
• Discursive Epistemologies by, for and about the De-colonizing Project / Paul R. Carr and Gina Thésée
• Decolonizing Social Justice Education: From Policy Knowledge to Citizenship Action / Lynette Shultz
• Nyerere’s Postcolonial Approach to Education / Peter Mayo
• Tagore and Education: Gazing beyond the Colonial Cage / Ratna Ghosh , M. Ayaz Naseem and Ashok Vijh
• Decolonizing Diaspora: Whose Traditional Land are We On? / Celia Haig-Brown
• Forts, Colonial Frontier Logics, and Aboriginal-Canadian Relations: Imagining Decolonizing Educational Philosophies in Canadian Contexts / Dwayne Donald
• The Problem of Fear Enhancing Inaccuracies of Representation: Muslim Male Youths and Western Media / Dolana Mogadime , Sherry Ramrattan Smith and Alexis Scott
• Clash of Dominant Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Anti-Colonial Analyses / Ali A. Abdi
• Gender Equity in Africa’s Institutions of Tertiary Education: Beyond Access and Representation / Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika
• Are we there yet? Theorizing a Decolonizing Science Education for Development in Africa / Edward Shizha
• Critical Curriculum Renewal in Africa: The Character of School Mathematics in Uganda / Immaculate K. Namukasa , Janet Kaahwa , Madge Quinn and Ronald Ddungu
• Subject Index / Ali A. Abdi.