Cross-cultural perspectives on policy and practice decolonizing community contexts /

• Other Authors: Lavia, Jennifer., Moore, Michele.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge research in education.
• Subjects: Education > Cross-cultural studies.; Education and state > Cross-cultural studies.; Education > Cross-cultural studies. > Parent participation; Educational change > Cross-cultural studies.; Indigenous peoples > Cross-cultural studies. > Education; Education.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Education and state.; Education > Parent participation.; Educational change.; Indigenous peoples > Education.; Electronic books.; Cross-cultural studies.
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This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The contributors develop critical understandings of the implications of changing policy and practice for those within and working with the educational organisat...

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Education, Community and Change; 1 Political Grace and the Struggle to Decolonize Community Practice; 2 Caribbean Thought and the Practice of Community; 3 Critical Literacies in Place: Teachers Who Work for Just and Sustainable Communities; 4 Changing Literacies: Schools, Communities and Homes; 5 Culturalism, Difference and Pedagogy: Lessons from Indigenous Education in Brazil; 6 A SLICE of Life: Changing Perceptions of Community amongst Children and Teachers in Kingston, Jamaica.