Knowledge and Decolonial Politics

A Critical Reader

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Knowledge and Decolonial Politics: A Critical Reader offers the perspectives of educators and learners within current developmental settings, highlighting the dominance of Western epistemologies in 'academic knowledge making', and the systemic barriers faced whilst trying to implement decolonial practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9789004380042
• ISBN-10: 9004380043
• Artikelnr.: 53169433

Autorenporträt

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He has published extensively in the area of anti-racism education, Black/African and minority schooling, Indigenous knowledges and anti-colonial thought. Mandeep Jajj is a graduate student in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests lie in anti-colonial, anti-racism, and decolonizing theories, along with development and modernization discourses. Mandeep's current research explores western "development" theories in relation to issues of economics and education.