1st Edition

Education, Modern Development, and Indigenous Knowledge An Analysis of Academic Knowledge Production

By Seana McGovern Copyright 1999
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book re-conceptualizes the field of international and comparative education by utilizing indigenous knowledge as a central component for altering the dominant, eurocentric social science research paradigm. Examples from indigenous sources of knowledge are juxtaposed to the dominant discourses on education and modern development in subaltern societies in order to provide scholars with alternative ways of viewing education and development and to shape how subaltern peoples are understood and represented in academic research. Bibliography. Index.

    Chapter One The Field of International and Comparative Education: A History of Ideas and Methods in the United States; Chapter Two Postmodern Analysis and the Re-viewing of Indigenous Knowledge: Power, Culture and Knowledge Relations; Chapter Three International and Comparative Education: An Analysis of the Comparative Education Review; Chapter Four Modern Development: An Analysis of The Development Dictionary; Chapter Five A Comparison of Dominant Concepts; Chapter Six Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHYIndex;

    Biography

    Seana Mcgovern