Childhood and Postcolonization: Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice (Changing Images of Early Childhood)
Gaile S. Cannella
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Description for Childhood and Postcolonization: Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice (Changing Images of Early Childhood)
hardcover. Series: Changing Images of Early Childhood. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world. Using a postcolonial lens on current educational practices, the authors hope to lift those practices out of reproducing traditional power structures and push our thinking beyond the adult/child dichotomy into new possibilities for the lives that are created with children.
This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world. Using a postcolonial lens on current educational practices, the authors hope to lift those practices out of reproducing traditional power structures and push our thinking beyond the adult/child dichotomy into new possibilities for the lives that are created with children.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Changing Images of Early Childhood
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415933469
SKU
V9780415933469
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About Gaile S. Cannella
Gaile S. Cannella is Professor of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University. Radhika Viruru is Clinical Assistant Professor in the department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University.
Reviews for Childhood and Postcolonization: Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice (Changing Images of Early Childhood)
"Childhood and Postcolonization is a new call to reconceptualize knowledge, policy, theory, and action about childhood/family/education. By focusing on childhood and postcolonial critiques, Cannella and Viruru bring new methodologies of critique to the truth of universal childhood and the privileging of developmental and educational discourses from the 'west' that are badly needed. The opening up of new possibilities for thinking ... Read more