Culture, education, and community [electronic resource] : expressions of the postcolonial Imagination / edited by Jennifer M. Lavia and Sechaba Mahlomaholo.

Contributor(s): Lavia, Jennifer | Mahlomaholo, Sechaba | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Macmillan's postcolonial studies in educationPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xiv, 269 p. : illSubject(s): Education -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies | Education and state -- Cross-cultural studies | Educational change -- Cross-cultural studies | Community development -- Cross-cultural studies | PostcolonialismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.43 LOC classification: LC191 | .C777 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Imagining the Postcolonial--Jennifer Lavia and Sechaba Mahlomaholo * Postcolonial Thought: A means for thinking through educational research?--Laurette Bristol * Analysing sustainable empowering learning environments through a community cultural wealth perspective--Sechaba Mahlomaholo * Images of Us--Lorraine Singh * Radical Visions: Reimagining Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World--Bob Lingard and Greg Vass Bob Lingard.
Summary: "Lavia and Mahlomaholo re-examine how postcolonial theories might contribute to understandings about education in Culture, Education, and Community. They provide a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. The book takes the imagination of the postcolonial and the experience of postcoloniality as its focus, acknowledging that postcolonialism is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation"-- Provided by publisher.
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Machine generated contents note: -- Imagining the Postcolonial--Jennifer Lavia and Sechaba Mahlomaholo * Postcolonial Thought: A means for thinking through educational research?--Laurette Bristol * Analysing sustainable empowering learning environments through a community cultural wealth perspective--Sechaba Mahlomaholo * Images of Us--Lorraine Singh * Radical Visions: Reimagining Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World--Bob Lingard and Greg Vass Bob Lingard.

"Lavia and Mahlomaholo re-examine how postcolonial theories might contribute to understandings about education in Culture, Education, and Community. They provide a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. The book takes the imagination of the postcolonial and the experience of postcoloniality as its focus, acknowledging that postcolonialism is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation"-- Provided by publisher.

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