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Rethinking the Academy - Beyond Eurocentrism in Higher Education (Hardcover, New edition)
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Rethinking the Academy - Beyond Eurocentrism in Higher Education (Hardcover, New edition)
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Universities and colleges like to self-idealize as relatively
neutral and value-free sites of higher learning. In reality, the
idea of the Westernized academy is deeply embedded in a Eurocentric
logic that not only excludes alternative forms of knowledge and
knowing, but also remains racialized, gendered, and sited in
coloniality with respect to governance, scholarship, and
entitlements. Efforts to address this gap between the ideal and
reality have tended toward diversifying the academy through
multicultural initiatives in diversity, inclusion, and equity.
However helpful as a first step, these interventions are
insufficient in generating the kind of substantive changes that
would abort the academy's crisis of legitimacy. Moves to
decolonize, ungender, and deracialize the academy will require a
commitment to the transformative principles of inclusivity,
including a focus on those root causes associated with structural
barriers and systemic biases. It remains to be seen if the academia
can rise to the challenge of deEurocentrizing the idea of the
academy along postEurocentric lines, while engaging the emergent
demands and evolving realities of a postmulticultural world.
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