Beschreibung:
Around the world, curriculum - hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities - has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Anglophone discourses and practices. This volume presents a critical analysis of what the author coins curriculum epistemicides, a form of Western imperialism used to suppress and eliminate the creation of rival, alternative knowledges in developing countries. It offers a range of epistemological perspectives on curriculum theory from the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America, and introduces the basis of an Itinerant Curriculum Theory.
Introduction 1. The Critical Surge Within the Critical Approaches 2. Epistemicides and the Yoke of Modernity: Coloniality of Knowledges and of Beings 3. The Idea of Africa or Africa as an Idea 4. The Islamic Conundrum. Lost (of) History or History Lost 5. Oh, Oh Is S/he European? What a Most Extraordinary Thing. How Can One Be European? 6. To Deterritorialize: Working Towards an Itinerant Curriculum Theory 7. Towards an Alternative Thinking of Alternatives 8. Conclusion: Itinerant Curriculum Theory: A Reiteration