Colonization and Epistemic Injustice in Higher Education: Precursors to Decolonization (Global Debates on the Decolonialization of Higher Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032018917 ISBN 13: 9781032018911

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geopolitical spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems.

Within this text, carefully chosen international contributors explore how colonialism, coloniality, and colonization have impacted indigenous people’s ways of knowing, feeling, behaving, valuing, being, and becoming in fundamental ways and how the West’s idea of education and schooling have been used as key instruments in the project of world domination and subjugation. Beyond these key entry concepts, chapters use ideas of modernity, post-modernism, globalization, internationalization, and neo-liberalism to examine how higher education in colonial and post-colonial societies still answers to a colonial narrative and what can be done to decolonize the system.

Unpacking the historical and philosophical antecedents of higher education and critically examining the intentions and impact of colonial assumptions behind higher education in different parts of the world, this is suitable reading for postgraduates and scholars in the field of higher education, as well as senior management teams in universities and practitioners who work directly in the field of transformation in government, and university departments.

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About the Author

Felix Maringe is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Wits School of Education, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032018917
• ISBN 13: 9781032018911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182
• Editor: Maringe Felix