Education, indigenous knowledge, and development in the global south
Subtitle: contesting knowledges for a sustainable future
By: Anders Breidlid
Series: Routledge research in education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415895897
Subjects: Education; Case studies; Indigenous peoples
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The rationale for writing this book; title: The hegemonic role of western epistemology; title: Introduction; title: The epistemic and economic marginalization of the south; title: The superiority claims of western hegemonic epistemology; title: He ecological consequences of western hegemonic epistemology; title: A critique of western hegemonic epistemology from within; title: Indigenous knowledge systems, sustainability, and education in the south; title: Introduction; title: Indigenous people and indigenous knowledges; title: Indigenous ecological knowledges; title: The co-existence of western and indigenous knowledge systems. CHAT and expansive learning; title: Another knowledge system in the south : Islamic knowledge production; title: Education in the global south. What kind of knowledges? What kind of education?; title: Indigenous knowledges and education : the case of South Africa; title: Introduction; title: African renaissance; title: The Xhosa worldviews and knowledge production; title: Land, sustainability, and sustainable development; title: Education policy in South Africa after 1994; title: Indigenous knowledges, education, and sustainable development; title: Conclusion; title: Education in Sudan and South Sudan : tension and struggles between epistemologies; title: Introduction; title: The Islamist hegemonic political discourse; title: The Islamist educational discourse; title: The political discourse in the south; title: Education in the south as "secondary" resistance; title: The new nation : South Sudan and sustainable development; title: The educational discourse of Cuba : an epistemological alternative for other countries in the south?; title: Introduction; title: Indigenous knowledges and sustainability; title: The educational discourse: social and cultural capital; title: The genesis of the Cuban education system; title: An alternative discourse : independence, indigenization, and inclusiveness; title: Indigenous knowledges and sustainability; title: What others say about the education system in Cuba; title: Conclusion; title: The cognitive violence against minority groups : the case of the Mapuche in Chile; title: Introduction; title: The situation of the Mapuche; title: Education in Chile : Marco curricular; title: EIB (Educación Intercultural Bilingüe); title: The Mapuche struggle for territorial and cognitive rights; title: Conclusion; title: Protest and beyond : a case for optimism?