Decolonizing the westernized university : interventions in philosophy of education from within and without / edited by Ramón Grosfoguel, Roberto Hernández, Ernesto Rosen Velásquez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grosfoguel, Ramón, editor.

Hernández, Roberto, 1979- editor.

Velásquez, Ernesto Rosen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Higher.

Education and globalization--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and globalization.

Critical pedagogy.

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Critical pedagogy--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

An underlying assumption undergirding institutions of higher education is that they serve as a means to upward socioeconomic mobility and, in true, as a way to address poverty that is tied to certain racialized/sexualized bodies. Although the education crisis is not an American or European problem in the geographic sense, but instead a global problem that plays itself out differentially across space and time, this volume focuses on the westernized university in the United States and abroad. It asks questions about what is westernized about the university, what its aims are, and how those who work in, through, and outside these sites of knowledge production-with local or global social movements-can participate in the slow, careful process of decolonizing the westernized university. Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world. As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse, which tends to assume the university is a neutral space, this collection will be of particular value to students and scholars working in philosophy of education, Latina/o philosophy, Africana philosophy, social epistemology, education, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, as well as to intellectual activists in the United States, south of the border, and around the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Underside of Philosophy of Education 1

1 The University at a Crossroads / Boaventura de Sousa Santos Santos, Boaventura de Sousa 3

Part II Decolonizing the Westernized University in Europe, the United States, and Latin America 15

2 About Them, But Without Them: Race and Ethnic Studies Relations in Dutch Universities / Kwame Nimako Nimako, Kwame 17

3 The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies in the United States: Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies / Ramón Grosfoguel Grosfoguel, Ramón 27

4 The Crisis of the University in the Context of Neoapartheid / Nelson Maldonado-Torres Maldonado-Torres, Nelson 39

5 Dropouts as Delinkers from the Modern/Colonial World System / Ernesto Rosen Velásquez Velásquez, Ernesto Rosen 53

6 Damnés Realities and Ontological Disobedience: Notes on the Coloniality of Reality in Higher Education in the Bolivian Andes and Beyond / Anders Burman Burman, Anders 71

7 Delinking from Western Epistemology: En Route from University to Pluriversity via Interculturality / Robert Aman Aman, Robert 95

8 Decolonizing Humanities: The Presence of the Humanitas and the Absence of the Anthropos / Tendayi Sithole Sithole, Tendayi 115

Part III Decolonizing Pedagogy and Human Rights 135

9 Philosopher-Teachers and That Little Thing Called Hasty Decolonization / Nassim Noroozi Noroozi, Nassim 137

10 Decolonizing Human Rights: Implications for Human Rights Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Advocacy in Westernized Universities and Schools / Camilo Pérez-Bustillo Pérez-Bustillo, Camilo 157

Part IV The Arizona Ban and Forty-Three Disappeared Students 185

11 Racial Interpellation, Civic Education, and Anti-Latina/o Racism / Andrea J. Pitts Pitts, Andrea J. 187

12 Ayotzinapa: An Attack Against Latin American Philosophy / Amy Reed-Sandoval Reed-Sandoval, Amy 215

13 Addressing Ayotzinapa: Using Dussel's Analectic Method for Establishing an Ethical Framework for Complex Social Movements / Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda Cepeda, Luis Rubén Díaz 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Decolonizing the westernized university.

ISBN:

9781498503754

1498503756

OCLC:

957133881