Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education.
This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary cas...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: (Towards) Global Citizenship Education 'Otherwise'; PART I Conceptual Analyses: Global Citizenship Education and the Gifts and Limitations of Postcolonial Theory; 1 Questions for Global Citizenship Education in the Context of the 'New Imperialism': For Whom, by Whom?; 2 Unsettling Cosmopolitanism: Global Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Benevolence.
- 3 Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms: Towards a Global Citizenship Education Based on 'Divisive Universalism'4 Engaging the Global by Resituating the Local: (Dis)locating the Literate Global Subject and His View from Nowhere; PART II Critiques of GCE Initiatives: Policies, Campaigns, Study Abroad and Volunteering Schemes; 5 Entitled to the World: The Rhetoric of U.S. Global Citizenship Education and Study Abroad; 6 How Does 'Global Citizenship Education' Construct Its Present? The Crisis of International Education.
- 7 'I'm Here to Help': Development Workers, the Politics of Benevolence and Critical Literacy8 Making Poverty History in the Society of the Spectacle: Civil Society and Educated Politics; 9 Recolonized Citizenships, Rhetorical Postcolonialities: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Prospects for Decolonized Ontologies and Subjectivities; Youth Study Tour to Africa (poem); PART III Creating Postcolonial Spaces: Global Citizenship Education 'Otherwise'; 10 Beyond Paternalism: Global Education with Preservice Teachers as a Practice of Implication.
- 11 Rerouting the Postcolonial University: Educating for Citizenship in Managed Times12 Equivocal Knowing and Elusive Realities: Imagining Global Citizenship Otherwise; Contributors; Index.