Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education

by Anne Hickling-Hudson

This is a fine collection of papers, from some leading educational scholars. They argue that the contemporary corporatised policies of education such as international education limit the possibilities of transformative practice. They demonstrate how the local (the national) and the global (the imperial) are interconnected phenomena, acting upon one another to construct indigeneity and racialised identities, and even hybridization, in ways that engender inequalities, restrict human rights, and infringe on the democratic and civil rights of the colonised and the marginalised. At the same time, they point to the possibilities of resistance, conditions that provide pedagogic opportunities for the creation of counter-hegemonic ideas, expressions, practices and structures. This book is highly recommended.

264 pages, Hardcover

Reviews

[Stef Rozitis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting, complex, potentially useful. This book looks at education in colonised places, discusses possibilities for liberation and brings together places and ideas to problematise what is happening. It was pretty readable and mostly easy to understand.

I think it's worth any teacher reading just for understanding and interest.