| Decolonising Colonial Education: Doing Away with Relics and Toxicity Embedded in the Racist Dominant Grand Narrative Contributor(s): Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi (Author) |
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ISBN: 9956550272 ISBN-13: 9789956550272 Publisher: Langaa RPCID OUR PRICE: $50.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Curricula - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.11 lbs) 378 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book on decolonising education chastises, heartens and invites academics to seriously commence academic and intellectual manumission by challenging the current toxic episteme - the Western dominant Grand Narrative that embeds, espouses and superimposes itself on others. It exhorts African scholars in particular to unite and address the bequests of colonialism and its toxic episteme by confronting the internalised fabrications, hegemonic dominance, lies and myths that have caused many conflicts in world history. Such a toxic episteme founded on problematic experiments, theories and praxis has tended to license unsubstantiated views and stereotypes of others as intellectually impotent, moribund and of inferior humanity. The book invites academics and intellectuals to commit to a healthy dialogue among the world's competing traditions of knowing and knowledge production to produce a truly accommodating and inclusive grand narrative informed by a recognition of a common and shared humanity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi: - Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango, author of many books, is a poet, teacher, columnist, Journalist, Peace and Conflict Scholar, and member of Writers' Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL), St. John's, NL, Canada. Mhango is an alumnus of Universities of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Menno Simons College at the University of Winnipeg and Arthur V. Mauro Centre at St. Paul College of Manitoba (Canada). |