Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric epistemic platform. At a time when the field laudably claims internationalization as a must, arguments presented in this volume prove that this «internationalization» is nothing more than the new Western expansionism, one that dominates all other cultures, economies and knowledges. Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a clarion call against curriculum epistemicides, proposing the use of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT), which opens up the canon of knowledge; challenges and destroys the coloniality of power, knowledge and being; and transforms the very idea and practice of power. The volume is essential reading for anyone involved in one of the most important battles for curriculum relevance – the fact that there is no social justice without cognitive justice.
| ISBN: | 9781433114229 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 2016 |
| Author: | João M Paraskeva |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 731 pages |
| Series: | Counterpoints |
| Genres: |
Philosophy and theory of education Sociology Moral and social purpose of education Teacher training Philosophy Advice on education |