Decolonising colonial education : doing away with relics and toxicity embedded in the racist dominant grand narrative / Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi, author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurocentrism--Africa.

Eurocentrism.

Knowledge, Theory of--Africa.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Racism in education--Africa.

Racism in education.

Decolonization--Africa.

Decolonization.

Africa.

Education--Social aspects--Africa.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xviii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2018]

Summary:

This book on decolonising education chastises, heartens and invites academics to seriously commence academic and intellectual manumission by challenging the current toxic episteme - the Western dominant Grand Narrative that embeds, espouses and superimposes itself on others. It exhorts African scholars in particular to unite and address the bequests of colonialism and its toxic episteme by confronting the internalised fabrications, hegemonic dominance, lies and myths that have caused many conflicts in world history. Such a toxic episteme founded on problematic experiments, theories and praxis has tended to license unsubstantiated views and stereotypes of others as intellectually impotent, moribund and of inferior humanity. The book invites academics and intellectuals to commit to a healthy dialogue among the world's competing traditions of knowing and knowledge production to produce a truly accommodating and inclusive grand narrative informed by a recognition of a common and shared humanity.

Contents:

Detoxifying toxic and hegemonic education as step to true peace and reconciliation of the world based on equality

The role of true and decolonised education to justice in the world today based on historical realities

Division as the carryover of toxic education

Toxic education as an offshoot of the dominant grand narrative

Achieving decolonised education, the need for integrated knowledge

Peace with environment and human coexistence based on decolonised education genocide as the legacy of colonial education : two case studies

Whose story should we buy into or ignore and why?

Relationship and peace and conflict based on decolonised education

Prescriptive nature of colonial and toxic education : how the dominant grand narrative monopolised knowledge

Taking on the dominant grand narrative as the beneficiary and creator of toxic education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-359).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789956550272

9956550272

OCLC:

1079065477

Publisher Number:

99979061792