Teaching Africa Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy /

Written from the perspective of a knowledge base and educational practice that are both African-centred, this volume uses a discursive pedagogy that is anti-colonial in origin. It theorizes colonial  and re-colonial  relations and the implications of imperial structures on knowledge production and...

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Main Author: Sefa Dei, George J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 9
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5771-7
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1: History as Tool of Colonialism
  • 2: Teaching and Learning African History
  • 3: The Study of Africa and the African Experience: The Challenge and Possibilities of an Integrative Theory
  • 4: Theorizing Africa Beyond its Boundaries
  • 5: Teaching Africa: Development and Decolonization
  • 6: Reclaiming Development through Indigeneity and Indigenous Knowledge
  • 7: Indigenous Knowledge Studies and the Next Generation: Pedagogical Possibilities for Anti-Colonial Education
  • 8: Politicizing the Contemporary Learning: Implications for African Schooling and Education
  • 9: Looking to the Future
  • Afrocentric Schooling in Action: Applying Development Discourses to Community Empowerment, HIV/AIDS Awareness, and Sustainability.