1st Edition

Knowledge Hierarchies in Transnational Education Staging dissensus

By Jing Qi Copyright 2015
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Transnational education seeks equivalence in standards and/or relevance of outcomes through the transfer of Western theories, concepts and methods. Utilising a critique-interpretative approach, Jing Qi argues that equivalence/relevance-oriented approaches to transnational education assume the legitimacy of the global knowledge hierarchy. Euro-American educational theories are imposed as defaults... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Neglected Critique  3. Critiques in a Networked-hutong  4. Critiques of the Global Knowledge Hierarchy  5. Critique-mediated Concept Translation  6. Western Concepts, Non-western Critiques  7. Refashioning the Local Knowledge Hierarchy  8. MentorAship and Local-global Epistemic Mobility  9. Staging Dissensus: Critiques of knowledge hierarchies

Biography

Jing Qi is an educational researcher at the Faculty of Education and Social Work in the University of Sydney, and in the Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

"This is a theoretically original, provocative, and much-needed contribution to the fields of international and comparative education, international development and educational sociology." - Dr Arathi Sriprakash, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

"Qi's new book makes a refreshing and highly significant contribution to current understandings of transnational education...I would recommend this book to anyone involved in transnational education for its theoretical insights and practical strategies to value the knowledge that all actors bring to knowledge work."- Associate Professor Catherine Manathunga, College of Education, Victoria University, Melbourne Australia