Decolonising the university : the challenge of deep cognitive justice / by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Education, Higher.

Decolonization--Social aspects.

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 457 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

At each particular historical moment, the university appears as a heavy and rigid structure resisting changes, whereas, throughout time, it has actually undergone profound transformation. Often such changes have been drastic and almost always provoked by factors external to the university, be they of a religious, political or economic nature. This book explores the nature and dynamics of the transformation that the university is undergoing today. It argues that some of the projects of reform currently under way are so radical that the question of the future of the university may well turn into the question of whether the university has a future. A specific feature of this inquiry is the realisation that questioning the future of the university involves questioning its past as well.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Part One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Part Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Part Three

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Conclusion

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-0946-X

OCLC:

1031847504