Culture, Education, and Community

By Jennifer Lavia

Subjects: Community development, Education and state, Education, social aspects, Postcolonialism, Cross-cultural studies, Education, Educational change, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / General

Description: "Lavia and Mahlomaholo re-examine how postcolonial theories might contribute to understandings about education in Culture, Education, and Community. They provide a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. The book takes the imagination of the postcolonial and the experience of postcoloniality as its focus, acknowledging that postcolonialism is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation"--