Towards a Just Curriculum Theory: The Epistemicide

ISBN-13: 9780367876814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Joao Paraskeva

Opis

The volume brings challenges critical educators to decolonize and to deterritorialize, providing scholars and educators a more nuanced analysis. By offering strategies to achieve a just curriculum theory, and by positioning curriculum theory to establish social and cognitive justice, this book aims to educate a more just and democratic society.

Spis treści

Contents

Preface

Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?

Noam Chomsky

Chapter 1

The struggle towards a non-functionalist critical river

João M. Paraskeva

Chapter 2

Imperialist Desires in English Only Language Policy

Donaldo Macedo

Chapter 3

Africana Philosophy

Paget Henry

Chapter 4

Decolonizing Western Universalisms

Decolonial Pluri-versalism From Aime Cesaire to the Zapatistas

Ramon Grosfoguel

Chapter 5

Against Coloniality: On the Meaning and Significance of the Decolonial Turn

Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Chapter 6

Educational Reforms Hostile to the Arts and Humanities

Neoliberalism and Citizenship

Jurjo Torres Santome

Chapter 7

Education, Knowledge and the Righting of Wrongs

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Chapter 8

Toni Morrison and the Discourse of the Other: Against the Hypocrisy of Completeness

Cameron McCarthy, Rushika Patel, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya

Conclusion

Curriculum as a Scandal

João M. Paraskeva

O autorze

João M. Paraskeva is Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA.