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1 online resource (259 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Education |
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Routledge research in education.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The rationale for writing this book -- The hegemonic role of western epistemology -- Introduction -- The epistemic and economic marginalization of the south -- The superiority claims of western hegemonic epistemology -- He ecological consequences of western hegemonic epistemology -- A critique of western hegemonic epistemology from within -- Indigenous knowledge systems, sustainability, and education in the south -- Introduction -- Indigenous people and Indigenous knowledges -- Indigenous ecological knowledges -- The co-existence of western and Indigenous knowledge systems. CHAT and expansive learning -- Another knowledge system in the south : Islamic knowledge production -- Education in the global south. What kind of knowledges? What kind of education? -- Indigenous knowledges and education : the case of South Africa -- Introduction -- African renaissance -- The Xhosa worldviews and knowledge production -- Land, sustainability, and sustainable development -- Education policy in South Africa after 1994 -- Indigenous knowledges, education, and sustainable development -- Conclusion -- Education in Sudan and South Sudan : tension and struggles between epistemologies -- Introduction -- The Islamist hegemonic political discourse -- The Islamist educational discourse -- The political discourse in the south -- Education in the south as "secondary" resistance -- The new nation : South Sudan and sustainable development -- The educational discourse of Cuba : an epistemological alternative for other countries in the south? -- Introduction -- Indigenous knowledges and sustainability -- The educational discourse: social and cultural capital -- The genesis of the Cuban education system -- An alternative discourse : independence, Indigenization, and inclusiveness -- Indigenous knowledges and sustainability -- What others say about the education system in Cuba -- Conclusion -- The cognitive violence against minority groups : the case of the Mapuche in Chile -- Introduction -- The situation of the Mapuche -- Education in Chile : Marco curricular -- EIB (Educación Intercultural Bilingüe) -- The Mapuche struggle for territorial and cognitive rights -- Conclusion -- Protest and beyond : a case for optimism? |
| Summary |
The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across the globe. The book queries the sustainability of hegemonic epistemology both in the classrooms in the global South as well as in the face of the imminent ecological challenges of our common |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- Southern Hemisphere
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Education -- Southern Hemisphere -- Case studies
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Indigenous peoples -- Education -- Southern Hemisphere
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Indigenous peoples -- Education -- Southern Hemisphere -- Case studies
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Education
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Indigenous peoples -- Education
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Southern Hemisphere
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136224768 |
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1136224769 |
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