African Elders’ Critical Teachings (ElderCrits)

In Search of New Educational Futures
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-0343-5925-2
Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 569, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 335 g

Reihe: Counterpoints

This book explores how the cultural knowledge of Indigenous African Elders and educational practitioners can transform education in Canada and beyond. Drawing on research in Ghana, South Africa, and Canada, it examines how Elders’ wisdom rooted in Indigenous ontologies, epistemologies, and axiologies offers vital insights for creating inclusive, just, and decolonized educational systems. Elders are moral educators, knowledge keepers, and community leaders whose teachings challenge colonial assumptions in schooling and redefine ideas of discipline, learning, and responsibility. Their lessons call for repairing education to nurture wholeness, respect, and relational accountability. The book invites readers to reconsider what counts as knowledge and who is authorized to teach.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dei, George Jerry Sefa

Garlow, Grace

Haydarian, Ilar

Cacciavillani, Alessia

Banahene Adjei, Paul

Vidotto, Danica

Über Autor(innen)

George Jerry Sefa Dei, PhD, is a Full Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Paul Banahene Adjei, PhD, is a Full Professor in the School of Social Work at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Grace Garlow is a teacher and interdisciplinary researcher whose work centers on culturally responsive education.
Ilar Haydarian is a law student at the University of Western Ontario with an academic background in equity and social justice education.
Alessia Cacciavillani holds a Master of Education and is currently a teacher candidate in Ontario.
Danica Vidotto, PhD, is an educator and researcher at the University of Ottawa.