Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice: Decolonizing Community Contexts (Routledge Research in Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415997690 ISBN 13: 9780415997690

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore different understandings of change that forge sustainable, inclusive and just communities and examine issues related to citizenship, resistance, peacemaking, critical literacies, and second chance opportunities. The authors seek to promote advocacy of change that recognises the importance of an informed engagement with cross-cultural issues in order to foreground those missing perspectives that are often marginalised, silenced, ignored or denied. All contributors are concerned with how the process of change can bridge the gap between social justice and exclusion and develop critical understandings of the implications of changing policy and practice for those within and working with the educational organisations and communities.

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About the Author

Jennifer Lavia is a Lecturer in Education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.

Michele Moore is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415997690
• ISBN 13: 9780415997690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Lavia Jennifer, Moore Michele