Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge: International Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches

The book offers a unique blend of writing from international perspectives, challenging dominant viewpoints and assumptions of curriculum knowledge by amplifying and disseminating the knowledge and perspectives of peoples that curriculum knowledge has historically silenced and marginalized. It provides a multitude of research themes and critical analytical perspectives for seeing how epistemic power permeates as cultural imperialism in education policies and practices across the world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 203 pages
Publication date: 04 November 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge: A Global Perspective offers a unique blend of writing from a broad range of international perspectives, showcasing interdisciplinary research approaches to decolonising curriculum knowledge. With a focus on the intellectual, emotional, economic, and political reversal of colonial injustices, the decolonial research and writing in this book challenge dominant viewpoints and assumptions of curriculum knowledge by amplifying and disseminating the knowledge and perspectives of peoples that curriculum knowledge has historically silenced and marginalized. The chapters in this book allow the reader to learn from the historical, social, political, cultural, and educational contexts of the UK, Nepal, South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Colombia, Canada, Thailand, Mauritius, Poland, Russia, Norway, and the Netherlands. This internationality provides the reader with a multitude of research themes and critical analytical perspectives for seeing how epistemic power permeates as cultural imperialism in education policies and practices across the world.

Weight: 416g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031136221
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022