Culture, Education, and Community
By: edited by Jennifer M. Lavia and Sechaba Mahlomaholo
Series: Postcolonial studies in education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230338258
Subjects: EDUCATION / Multicultural Education; Education and state; Community development; Cross-cultural studies; Educational change; EDUCATION / General; Education; Postcolonialism
Description: "Lavia and Mahlomaholo re-examine how postcolonial theories might contribute to understandings about education in Culture, Education, and Community. They provide a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. The book takes the imagination of the postcolonial and the experience of postcoloniality as its focus, acknowledging that postcolonialism is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Imagining the Postcolonial; title: Jennifer Lavia and Sechaba Mahlomaholo * Postcolonial Thought: A means for thinking through educational research?; title: Laurette Bristol * Analysing sustainable empowering learning environments through a community cultural wealth perspective; title: Sechaba Mahlomaholo * Images of Us; title: Lorraine Singh * Radical Visions: Reimagining Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World; title: Bob Lingard and Greg Vass Bob Lingard.