Overview
- Examines precolonial African societies and Indigenous ways of knowing
- Highlights epicolonial dynamics that characterize higher education and knowledge production on the African continent
- Provides insights into philosophies of land and the impacts of land loss
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Decolonizing History and Its Impact on Education from K–12 and Beyond
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Identity and Ways of Knowing for the Educator and the Learner
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Spirituality and Land-Based Education
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About this book
In the last two decades, we have witnessed the quest for decolonization; through research, writing, teaching, and curriculum across the globe. Calls to decolonize higher education have been overwhelming in recent year. However, the goal of decolonizing has evolved past not only the need to dismantle colonial empires but all imperial structures. Today, decolonization is deemed a basis for restorative justice under the lens of the psychological, economic, and cultural spectrum. In this book, the editor and her authors confront various dimensions of decolonizing work, structural, epistemic, personal, and relational, which are entangled and equally necessary. This book illuminates other sites and dimensions of decolonizing not only from Africa but also other areas. This convergence of critical scholarship, theoretical inquiry, and empirical research is committed to questioning and redressing inequality in contemporary history and other African studies. It signals one of many steps in a bid to consultatively examine how knowledge and power have been both defined and subsequently denied through the sphere of academic practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane’s research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education, Colonial Sickness
Book Subtitle: A Decolonial African Indigenous Project
Editors: Njoki Nathani Wane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40262-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40261-6Published: 19 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40264-7Due: 19 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40262-3Published: 18 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 354
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Imperialism and Colonialism, Postcolonial Philosophy