Rethinking the Academy: Beyond Eurocentrism in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781433176364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 342 str.

Augie Fleras

Opis

Rethinking the Academy outlines the limitations of current diversity and inclusion initiatives in higher education and academia more broadly, arguing for more progressive measures to decolonize, ungender, and deracialize the academy through transformative principles of inclusivity that address structural and systemic barriers to equity.

Spis treści

Preface - Problematizing the Academy, Calling Out Eurocentricism - Unmasking the Academy - Conceptualizing Eurocentrism - Indigenizing the Academy - A Gendered Academy - A Racialized Academy - Toward an Inclusive Academy - Resetting the Academy: Beyond Eurocentrism - Index.

O autorze

Augie Fleras earned his PhD in anthropology and Maori studies from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). In 2018 Fleras received a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association. He is the author of numerous book publications, including Citizenship in a Transnational Canada (Peter Lang, 2018) and Postmulticulturalism (Peter Lang, 2019).