04249nam 2200745Ia 450 991095346520332120251117063120.01-135-20218-41-282-28353-797866122835360-203-87100-6(CKB)1000000000783949(EBL)446674(OCoLC)444710004(SSID)ssj0000132932(PQKBManifestationID)11143513(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132932(PQKBWorkID)10041167(PQKB)11410990(MiAaPQ)EBC446674(Au-PeEL)EBL446674(CaPaEBR)ebr10330979(CaONFJC)MIL228353(OCoLC)438703658(EXLCZ)99100000000078394920090429d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCross-cultural perspectives on policy and practice: decolonizing community contexts /edited by Jennifer Lavia and Michele Moore1st ed.New York ;London Routledge20091 online resource (242 p.)Routledge research in educationDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-64899-8 0-415-99769-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, Jamaica7 Inclusion, Narrative and Voices of Disabled Children in Trinidad and St. Lucia8 Inclusion of Disabled Students in Higher Education in Zimbabwe; 9 Diversity, Democracy and Change in the Inner City: Understanding Schools as Belonging to Communities; 10 Decolonizing the Contexts of the Subaltern Academic Teacher Communities through the Genealogical Method; 11 Adult Education and the Project of Widening Participation; 12 Community Perspectives on Poverty and Poverty Alleviation in the Caribbean13 "I Am a Certain Person When I Am Here, It Is Not Who I Am": Refugees' Voices within Communities of ChangeConclusion: Aspirations for Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and Practice-Decolonizing Community Contexts; Contributors; IndexThis book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated, valued, heard, and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus, yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore different understandings of change that forge sustainable, inclusive and just communities and examine issues related to citizenship, resistance, peacemaking, critical literacies, and second chance opportunities. The authors seek to promote advocacy of change that recognises the importance of an inRoutledge research in education.EducationCross-cultural studiesEducation and stateCross-cultural studiesEducationParent participationCross-cultural studiesEducational changeCross-cultural studiesIndigenous peoplesEducationCross-cultural studiesEducationEducation and stateEducationParent participationEducational changeIndigenous peoplesEducation306.43/2Lavia Jennifer1790771Moore Michele1791303MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953465203321Cross-cultural perspectives on policy and practice: decolonizing community contexts4488981UNINA