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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826803103321

Titolo

Curriculum as cultural practice : postcolonial imaginations / / edited by Yatta Kanu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4426-1027-1

1-281-99192-9

9786611991920

1-4426-8626-X

1-4426-7369-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

370.11/5

Soggetti

Critical pedagogy

Postcolonialism

Curriculum change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Rereading in disciplines postcolonially. Ideology and politics in English-language education in Trinidad and Tobago : the colonial experience and a postcolonial critique / Norrel A. London ; To steal or to tell : teaching English in the global era / Seonaigh MacPherson ; High school postcolonial : as the students ran ahead with the theory / John Willinsky ; Engaged differences : school reading practices, postcolonial literature, and their discontents / Ingrid Johnson ; A kinder mathematics for Nunavut / Ralph T. Mason -- pt. II. Indigenous knowledges as postcolonial/anticolonial resistance. 'Is we who haffi ride di staam' : critical knowledge, multiple knowings : possibilities, challenges, and resistance in curriculum/cultural contexts / George J. Sefa Dei, Stanley Doyle-Wood ; Critical ontology and indigenous ways of being : forging a postcolonial curriculum / Joe L. Kincheloe ; Reappropriating traditions in the postcolonial curricular imagination /



Yatta Kanu ; Cross-cultural science teaching : rekindling traditions for aboriginal students / Glen S. Aikenhead -- pt. III. Globalization and the educational response. Postcolonialism and globalization : thoughts towards a new hermeneutic pedagogy / David Smith ; The impact of globalization on curriculum development in postcolonial societies / M. Kazim Bacchus -- pt. IV. Reimagining nation and national identity in the curriculum. Singular nation, plural possibilities : reimagining curriculum as third space / George Richardson ; Learning whose nation? / Kara McDonald.

Sommario/riassunto

Curriculum as Cultural Practice aims to revitalize current discourses of curriculum research and reform from a postcolonial perspective.