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David W. Kupferman - Disassembling and Decolonizing School in the Pacific: A Genealogy from Micronesia (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education) - 9789400746725 - V9789400746725
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Disassembling and Decolonizing School in the Pacific: A Genealogy from Micronesia (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education)

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Description for Disassembling and Decolonizing School in the Pacific: A Genealogy from Micronesia (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education) Hardcover. Offering a counter-discourse to the accepted liberal metanarrative of schooling in Micronesia, this volume argues that across the Pacific region, American-developed school systems are today non-neutral cultural players with quasi-colonialist credentials. Series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKC; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 468.

Schooling in the region known as Micronesia is today a normalized, ubiquitous, and largely unexamined habit. As a result, many of its effects have also gone unnoticed and unchallenged. By interrogating the processes of normalization and governmentality that circulate and operate through schooling in the region through the deployment of Foucaultian conceptions of power, knowledge, and subjectivity, this work destabilizes conventional notions of schooling’s neutrality, self-evident benefit, and its role as the key to contemporary notions of so-called political, economic, and social development. 

This work aims to disquiet the idea that school today is both rooted in some distant past and ... Read more

The work goes on to conduct a genealogy of the various subjectivities produced through this present schooling practice, notably the student, the teacher, and the child/parent/family. It concludes by offering a counter-discourse to the normalized narrative of schooling, and suggests that what is displaced and foreclosed on by that narrative in fact holds a possible key to meaningful decolonization and self-determination.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400746725
SKU
V9789400746725
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Reviews for Disassembling and Decolonizing School in the Pacific: A Genealogy from Micronesia (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education)
“Kupferman’s book is a trenchant and thought-provoking critique of schooling in Micronesia that strongly contests its widely accepted role as the primary axis of development. It invites continued dialogue about the purpose and effects of schooling in the region. It would be a stimulating read for educators, anthropologists of education, postcolonial theorists, and scholars of Micronesia and the Pacific at ... Read more

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