Anti-colonialism and education : : the politics of resistance / / edited by George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf.

• Superior document: Bold Visions in Educational Research ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Dei, George J. Sefa 1954-; Kempf, Arlo,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Bold Visions in Educational Research ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

There is a rich intellectual history to the development of anti-colonial thought and practice. In discussing the politics of knowledge production, this collection borrows from and builds upon this intellectual traditional to offer understandings of the macro-political processes and structures of education delivery (e. g., social organization of knowledge, culture, pedagogy and resistant politics). The contributors raise key issues regarding the contestation of knowledge, as well as the role of cultural and social values in understanding the way power shapes everyday relations of politics and subjectivity. In reframing anti-colonial thought and practice, this book reclaims the power of critical, oppositional discourse and theory for educational transformation. Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance , includes some the most current theorizing around anti-colonial practice, written specifically for this collection. Each of the essays extends the terrain of the discussion, of what constitutes anti-colonialism. Among the many discursive highlights is the interrogation of the politics of embodied knowing, the theoretical distinctions and connections between anti-colonial thought and post-colonial theory, and the identification of the particular lessons of anti-colonial theory for critical educational practice. Essays explore such key issues as the challenge of articulating anti-colonial thought as an epistemology of the colonized, anchored in the indigenous sense of collective and common colonial consciousness; the conceptualization of power configurations embedded in ideas, cultures and histories of marginalized communities; the understanding of indigeneity as pedagogical practice; and the pursuit of agency, resistance and subjective politics through anti-colonial learning.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf -- Mapping the Terrain – Towards a New Politics of Resistance / George J. Sefa Dei -- A Tool of Massive Erosion: Scientific Knowledge in the Neo-Colonial Enterprise / Gina Thésée -- On Silence and Dominant Accountability: A Critical Anticolonial Investigation of the Antiracism Classroom / Philip S.S. Howard -- Implicit Racism and the Brain: How Neurobiology Can Inform an Anti-Colonial, Anti-Racist Pedagogy / Serhat Unsal -- Is Decolonization Possible? / Njoki Nathani Wane -- Spiritual Politics: Politicizing the Black Church Tradition in Anti-Colonial Praxis / Elaine A. Brown Spencer -- Anti-Colonial Historiography: Interrogating Colonial Education / Arlo Kempf -- From Post-Colonial to Anti-Colonial Politics: Difference, Knowledge and R. v. R.D.S. / Leila Angod -- The Power of Oral Tradition: Critically Resisting the Colonial Footprint / Maryam Navabi -- Indigenous Knowledge in Jamaica: A Tool of Ideology in a Neo-Colonial Context / Mark V. Campbell -- Development Unmoored / Catherine Moffatt -- An Anti-Colonial Critique of Research Methodology / Jennifer Hales -- Remembering, Resisting: Casting an Anti-Colonial Gaze upon the Education of Diverse Students in Social Work Education / Billie Allan -- Invisible Violence and Spiritual Injury within Post-Secondary Institutions: An Anti-colonial Interrogation and Response / Marlene Ruck-Simmons -- Engendering Indigenous Knowledge / Lindsay Kerr -- Looking Forward – The Pedagogical Implications of Anti-Colonialism / George J. Sefa Dei and Arlo Kempf.