Knowledge and Decolonial Politics: A Critical Reader: 6 (Anti-Colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Ch) - Hardcover

George J. Sefa Dei; Mandeep Jajj

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004380043 ISBN 13: 9789004380042

Publisher: Brill | Sense, 2018

Synopsis

Knowledge and Decolonial Politics: A Critical Reader offers the perspectives of educators and learners within current developmental settings, highlighting the dominance of Western epistemologies in academic knowledge making, and the systemic barriers faced whilst trying to implement decolonial practices.

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About the Author

Mandeep Jajj is a graduate student in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests lie in anti-colonial, anti-racism, and decolonizing theories, along with development and modernization discourses. Mandeeps current research explores western development theories in relation to issues of economics and education.

George Sefa Dei is Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He has published extensively in the area of anti-racism education, Black/African and minority schooling, Indigenous knowledges and anti-colonial thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill | Sense
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004380043
• ISBN 13: 9789004380042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120