Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge: International Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches

✍ Scribed by Marlon Lee Moncrieffe (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a unique blend of writing from a broad range of international perspectives, showing interdisciplinary research approaches to decolonising curriculum knowledge. With a focus on the intellectual, emotional, economic, and political reversal of colonial injustices, the decolonial research and writing in this book challenge dominant viewpoints and assumptions of curriculum knowledge by amplifying and disseminating the knowledge and perspectives of peoples that curriculum knowledge has historically silenced and marginalized. The chapters in this book allow the reader to learn from the historical, social, political, cultural, and educational contexts of the UK, Nepal, South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Colombia, Canada, Thailand, Mauritius, Poland, Russia, Norway, and the Netherlands. This internationality provides the reader with a multitude of research themes and critical analytical perspectives for seeing how epistemic power permeates as cultural imperialism in education policies and practices across the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Why Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge?
Why Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge?
The Book
Aims of the Book
Research Methods
Disrupting Epistemic Power
References
2 Decolonising Participatory Methods with Children and Young People in International Research Collaborations: Reflections from a Participatory Arts-Based Project with Afrocolombian and Indigenous Young People in Colombia
Introduction
Participatory Methods with Children and Young People: A Critical History
Decolonising Childhood and Children’s Participation: Who Participates, and for What Purpose?
The Project: ¿Cuál Es La Verdad? De-Constructing Collective Memories and Imagining Alternative Futures with Young People in Chocó Through Music and Arts
Global Research Relations and Funding Structures
Arts-Based Participatory Methodologies: Context and Flexibility
Representation and ‘Impact’ at the Crossroads Between Research, Education and Intervention
Ethics, Reflexivity and Relationality
Conclusion
References
3 Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge Using Arts-Based Approaches for Teaching and Learning Civic Education with Young People in Nepal
Introduction
The Role of Civic Education in Nepal
Peacebuilding Through Civic Education
Policies and Practices for Teaching and Learning Civic Education
Young people’s Imaginations of Civic National Values
The Scheme of Work (Research Process)
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
4 Creating and Curating: Three Voices from Namibia, Australia and the UK on Decolonising the Literary-Related Doctorate
Introduction
Decolonising the Literary-Related Doctorate
Decolonising the Doctorate—Context and Theorising
Decolonised Literary-Related Doctoral Theses—Groundbreaking Work
Josephine -Critical Reflection
Josephine’s Thesis Extract with Gina’s Curator Comments
Frances Wyld’s Reflection on Decolonised Methodology, ‘Storywork’
Frances Wyld Extract from the Doctorate with Curating Comments from Gina
Gina on Examiners
Conclusion
References
5 Decolonising World Bank Influence on Curriculum Reforms in Mauritius
Introduction
International Power and Policy Influence on SIDS
Education Reform in Mauritius—‘The Extended Programme’
Involvement of the World Bank in Mauritius
Case Study Investigation
Experiences of Working with World Bank on the Assessment of Educational Reforms
Rajesh
Vick
Krish
Discussion
Conclusion
References
6 Decolonising the “Thai-ness” Discourse in Education
Introduction
The Production of Thai-ness
Thai-ness as Hegemonic Ideology in Social Studies Curriculum and Textbooks
Decolonising the ‘Thai-ness’ Discourse in Education
Conclusion
References
7 Coloniality and National Exceptionalism in Norwegian Citizenship Education: Engaging the Ontological Baseline
Educational Narratives and the Colonial Production of Absences
Interrupting Coloniality in Norwegian Citizenship Education
National Exceptionalism and Universalised Western Epistemology
National Imaginary and the Production of “Ideal” Citizens
Engaging the Ontological Baseline
References
8 Decolonising Early Childhood Curricula: A Canadian Perspective
Introduction
Access to Childcare and Racial Inequities
Settler Colonialism and Early Childhood Education
Decolonising Early Childhood Education Curricula
(Race)ing Forward: Identity as Contested Space in Early Childhood
Conclusion
References
9 Developing a Reframed Curriculum for the UK: Who Were the Ancient Britons?
Introduction
Historical Context: Where Did the First Human Beings Emerge?
The History of Africa Was Already Old When Europe Was Born
A New Historiography of Experience: Afrocentricity and Africana Phenomenology
The Reframed Units of Change Teaching Programme
Conclusion
References
10 Decolonising the Curriculum in Hybrid Spaces: Muslim Schooling in Russia
Introduction
Educational Reforms in Post-Soviet Russia: From Decolonisation to ‘Recolonisation’
The Case of the Republic of Tatarstan
Tatar-Medium Schools as Advocates for Pluralism
Conclusion
References
11 Decolonising Education Through Bottom-Up Participatory Activities in Poland
The Unobvious Context
Taking Matters in One’s Hands: Participatory Bottom-Up Activities
Selected Bottom-Up Activities of Parents for the Decolonisation of Education
Conclusion
References
12 Universe, Pluriverse and a Blue Ocean: Reflective Analogies and Philosophical Considerations for Decolonising Education—A View from the Netherlands
Introduction
Developing a Pluriformity of Knowledge in the Charming School
Three Connecting Perspectives
Educators Learning from Each Other
How Do Educators Achieve Being and Remaining a PLC?
Assisting Development of the Other
Connecting Virtues of Ethical Leadership
Blue Ocean
Blue Ocean—1. ‘Ledic Gemüete’
Blue Ocean—2. ‘Syncritic Method’
Blue Ocean—3. ‘Comprehensive Analogies’
Associating Perspectives and Needs
Binding and Bonding
References
Index