Culture, Education, and Community: Expressions of the Postcolonial Imagination [Hardcover]

Provides a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. Takes the imagination of the postcolonial?as its focus, acknowledging that?it is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation.Imagining the Postcolonial; J.Lavia & S.Mahlomaholo Postcolonial Thought: A Means for Thinking Through Educational Research?; L.Bristol Analysing Sustainable Empowering Learning Environments Through a Community Cultural Wealth Perspective; S.Mahlomaholo Images of Us; L.Singh Radical Visions: Reimagining Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World; B.Lingard & G.Vass

'This book makes an important contribution to the relevance and necessity of multicultural education. It shows how communities around the globe are struggling for the similar right to learn through their own cultural knowledge.' - Julio Cammarota, associate professor, The University of Arizona