Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education [Hardcover]

Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering pedagogical projects. She?offers an accessible and useful overview and comparison of theoretical debates related to critiques of Western/Northern hegemony.PART I: POSTCOLONIALISMS AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORIES Contextualizing Postcolonialisms and Postcolonial Theories Homi Bhabha's Contribution and Critics Gayatri Spivak's Contribution and Critics Comparative Framework: Selected Theories of Institutional Suffering PART II: ACTIONING POSTCOLONIAL THEORY IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Contextualizing the Research Process Analysis of Policy I: Focus on Western Liberal Humanism Analysis of Policy II: Focus on Neoliberalism Analysis of Practice I: the Other Who Validates our Superiority Analysis of Practice II: the Other Who Should be Grateful for our Efforts Analysis of Practice III: the Other Who Desperately Needs our Leadership PART III: ACTIONING POSTCOLONIAL PEDAGOGIES Contextualizing Pedagogical Processes and Contexts Relativizing Western Knowledge Production in Spaces of Dissensus The OSDE methodology Engaging with Other Knowledge Systems: the Through Other Eyes Initiative Wrestling with Meaning and Life: Being a Mother of Immigrant Children

'Below' is a concept-metaphor to describe historical cognitive damage visited upon groups brought up for manual labor and punished for intellectual labor as disobedience, for centuries, not necessarily connected to European colonialism. Subalternity names a condition separated from historical generalizability. Can these lead to institutional practice? Actionable Postcolonial Theory attempts an answer. - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Vanessa Andreotti weaves together in a clear, accessible and above all personal manner, the importance of postcolonial theories to education today. She critiques policies and practices in Engll“I