The dialectics of African and Western knowledge construction
Subtitle: counter hegemonic perspectives
By: edited by Handel Kashope Wright, Ali A. Abdi
Series: Black studies and critical thinking -- v. 21
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433113796; 9781433113789; 9781453905760
Subjects: Educational change; Ethnoscience; Eurocentrism; Educational anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the dialectics of African education and Western discourses: appropriation, ambivalence, and alternatives / Handel K. Wright & Ali A. Abdi; title: Eurocentric discourses and African philosophies and epistemologies of education: counter-hegemonic analyses and responses / Ali A. Abdi; title: Ubuntu, African epistemology and development: contributions, contradictions, tensions and possibilities / Dalene Swanson; title: Inkumbulo as remembering, communing, and praxis: retelling the stories of transformation and learning / Nombuso Dlamini; title: Integrating African indigenous knowledge in Kenya's formal education system: the potential for sustainable development / Jenipher A. Owuor; title: Reframing African Higher education / Michael Kariwo; title: Re-culturing teacher education in Africa / Musembi Nungu; title: Reframing and indigenizing science education in Africa / Samson M. Nashon; title: African ways of knowing: rethinking pedagogy in Africa / Constantine Ngara; title: Linguistic independence and African education and development / Edward Shizha; title: Cultural games and mathematics education in Ghana: a theoretical analysis; title: Michael nabie; title: Is this an African I see before me?: Black/African identity and the politics of (Western, academic) knowledge / Handel Kashope Wright.