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The dialectics of African education and Western discourses : counter-hegemonic perspectives / edited by Handel Kashope Wright & Ali A. Abdi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 21.
- Black studies & critical thinking
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational anthropology--Africa.
- Educational anthropology.
- Educational change--Africa.
- Educational change.
- Eurocentrism.
- Ethnoscience.
- Africa.
- Ethnoscience--Africa.
- Eurocentrism--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2012]
- Summary:
- Education scholars, most of them in Canada, analyze the encounter between progressive continental African academics currently located in the West and predominantly Western discourses of empowerment, focusing of course on education scholars in Canada. They show how scholars appropriate aspects of the discourse they find useful, question the marginalization of Africa and Africans in much of the discourse, and develop African or African-informed alternatives. Among the topics are Eurocentric discourses and African philosophies and epistemologies of education, reframing and indigenizing science education in Africa, and a theoretical analysis of cultural games and mathematics education in Ghana. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introducing the dialectics of African education and Western discourses: appropriation, ambivalence, and alternatives / Handel K. Wright & Ali A. Abdi
- Eurocentric discourses and African philosophies and epistemologies of education: counter-hegemonic analyses and responses / Ali A. Abdi
- Ubuntu, African epistemology and development: contributions, contradictions, tensions and possibilities / Dalene Swanson
- Inkumbulo as remembering, communing, and praxis: retelling the stories of transformation and learning / Nombuso Dlamini
- Integrating African indigenous knowledge in Kenya's formal education system: the potential for sustainable development / Jenipher A. Owuor
- Reframing African Higher education / Michael Kariwo
- Re-culturing teacher education in Africa / Musembi Nungu
- Reframing and indigenizing science education in Africa / Samson M. Nashon
- African ways of knowing: rethinking pedagogy in Africa / Constantine Ngara
- Linguistic independence and African education and development / Edward Shizha
- Cultural games and mathematics education in Ghana: a theoretical analysis
- Michael nabie
- Is this an African I see before me?: Black/African identity and the politics of (Western, academic) knowledge / Handel Kashope Wright.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1433113783
- 9781433113796
- 1433113791
- 9781433113789
- 9781453905760
- 1453905766
- OCLC:
- 773493527
- Publisher Number:
- 99947644118
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