Decolonizing Philosophies of Education
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 l
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Decolonizing Philosophies of Education Edited by
Ali A. Abdi University of Alberta, Canada
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ................................................................................................. vii 1. Decolonizing Philosophies of Education: An Introduction................................ 1 Ali A. Abdi 2. Discursive Epistemologies by, for and about the De-colonizing Project ......... 15 Paul R. Carr and Gina thésée 3. Decolonizing Social Justice Education: From Policy Knowledge to Citizenship Action ............................................................................................ 29 Lynette Shultz 4. Nyerere’s Postcolonial Approach to Education ............................................... 43 Peter Mayo 5. Tagore and Education: Gazing beyond the Colonial Cage .............................. 59 Ratna Ghosh, M. Ayaz Naseem and Ashok Vijh 6. Decolonizing Diaspora: Whose Traditional Land are We On?........................ 73 Celia Haig-Brown 7. Forts, Colonial Frontier Logics, and Aboriginal-Canadian Relations: Imagining Decolonizing Educational Philosophies in Canadian Contexts ............................................................................................ 91 Dwayne Donald 8. The Problem of Fear Enhancing Inaccuracies of Representation: Muslim Male Youths and Western Media ..................................................... 113 Dolana Mogadime, Sherry Ramrattan Smith & Alexis Scott 9. Clash of Dominant Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Anti-colonial Analyses ................................... 131 Ali A. Abdi 10. Gender Equity in Africa’s Institutions of Tertiary Education: Beyond Access and Representation................................................................ 147 Philomena Okeke-Ihejirika
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11. Are we there yet? Theorizing a Decolonizing Science Education for Development in Africa ................................................................................... 163 Edward Shizha 12. Critical Curriculum Renewal: The Character of School Mathematics in Uganda .................................................................................. 177 Immaculate Namukasa, Janet Kaahwa, Madge Quinn and R
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