Epistemic Colonialism and the Transfer of Curriculum Knowledge across Borders: Applying a Historical Lens to Contest Unilateral Logics

This volume explores the colonial epistemologies that have dominated the transfer of curriculum knowledge and offers an alternative, relational mode of knowledge transfer and negotiation within curriculum studies research and praxis. It contests the unilateral logics of reason and thought and provides a relational onto-epistemic network as an alternative to overcome epistemological colonialism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 11 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume delves into the pervasive colonial epistemologies that have long shaped the transfer of curriculum knowledge within and across nation-states. By adopting a historical approach, it uncovers the intricate ways in which epistemological colonialism has permeated the field of curriculum studies. Through this lens, the authors offer an alternative, relational mode of knowledge transfer and negotiation within curriculum studies research and praxis.

World-renowned experts in curriculum studies employ a historical lens to explore the intricate negotiations, transfers, and confrontations of diverse cultural knowledge in curriculum studies and schooling. By contextualizing contemporary epistemes as historically embedded and politically produced, they challenge the unilateral logics of reason and thought that continue to dominate modern curriculum studies. The volume critically examines the doxa of comparative reason, the politics of knowledge and identity, the construction of twenty-first-century educational subjects, and multiculturalism. It presents a relational onto-epistemic network as a transformative alternative to dissect and overcome epistemological colonialism.

This text is of immense value to researchers, academics, and educators engaged in curriculum studies, as well as those interested in international and comparative education. It also holds relevance for those engaged in post-colonial discourses and the philosophy of education. The volume provides a rich resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the complexities of knowledge production, power dynamics, and cultural representation in educational contexts.

Weight: 671g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367339487