Education, Colonial Sickness

A Decolonial African Indigenous Project
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-40261-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

In the last two decades, we have witnessed the quest for decolonization; through research, writing, teaching, and curriculum across the globe. Calls to decolonize higher education have been overwhelming in recent year. However, the goal of decolonizing has evolved past not only the need to dismantle colonial empires but all imperial structures. Today, decolonization is deemed a basis for restorative justice under the lens of the psychological, economic, and cultural spectrum. In this book, the editor and her authors confront various dimensions of decolonizing work, structural, epistemic, personal, and relational, which are entangled and equally necessary. This book illuminates other sites and dimensions of decolonizing not only from Africa but also other areas. This convergence of critical scholarship, theoretical inquiry, and empirical research is committed to questioning and redressing inequality in contemporary history and other African studies. It signals one of many steps in a bid to consultatively examine how knowledge and power have been both defined and subsequently denied through the sphere of academic practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wane, Njoki Nathani

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. IntroductionPart I Decolonizing History and Its impact on education from K-12 and beyond2. Seafaring Africans and the Myth of Columbus: Reflecting on 14th Century Mali and the Prospect of Atlantic Voyages3. Ubuntu: Social Justice Education, Governance and Women Rights in Pre-Colonial Africa4. Women to Women Marriage, Social Justice, and House Property System in the Precolonial Period: Implications for Educating the Youth5. Back to the Roots: Reconnecting Africans in Diaspora through Cultural Media; Education and Personal Narratives6. UBUNTU: An educational tool to dismantling patriarchy: Voices from the community eldersPart II Identity and Ways of Knowing for the Educator & The Learner7. Knowledge Production and Colonial Myths: Centring Indigenous Knowledges through Decolonization8. Seeking the African Indigenous Ways of Being in Academia: The Intersecting Journeys of Two Black Women from Different Historical Colonial Experiences - PART ONE9. Seeking the African Indigenous Ways of Being in Academia: The Intersecting Journeys of Two Black Women from Different Historical Colonial Experiences - PART TWO10. Resistance, Reparation and Education Awareness: Resurgence of African Identities11. Cultural Genocide: The Miseducation of the African ChildPart III Spirituality and Land Based Education12. Three Souls in Search for the Inner Peace and Spiritual Journey: Educational Moments13. The Soul in Soul Music: Educational Tools for Decolonial Ruptures14. Kumina: Kumina! Afro-Jamaican religion, education, and practice: a site where Afrocentricity, “bodily knowledge” and spiritual interconnection are activated, negotiated, and embodied15. Land Teachings: Lessons from Keiyo Elders
16. Beyond Territory: Engendering Indigenous & African Educational Philosophies of Land as Counter-hegemonic Resistance to Contemporary Framings of Land in Kenya17. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane’s research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.