Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

Name: Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South
Author: Anders (Oslo University College, Norway) Breidlid

Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future

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Paperback, 244 blz. | Engels

Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 2012

ISBN13: 9780415629881

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Taylor & Francis 1e druk, 2012 9780415629881

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The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.

Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across the globe. The book queries the sustainability of hegemonic epistemology both in the classrooms in the global South as well as in the face of the imminent ecological challenges of our common earth, and discusses whether indigenous knowledge systems would better serve the pupils in the global South and help promote sustainable development.