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Critical Global Perspectives - Rethinking Knowledge about Global Societies (Hc) (Research in Social Education) (Hardcover, New)
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Critical Global Perspectives - Rethinking Knowledge about Global Societies (Hc) (Research in Social Education) (Hardcover, New)
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A volume in Research in Social Education Series Editor Merry
Merryfield, The Ohio State University The primary purpose of this
book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to
critically conceptualize knowledge about the world. In other words,
imagining curriculum in a critical way means decolonizing
mainstream knowledge about global societies. Such an approach
re-evaluates how we have come to know the world and asks us to
consider the socio-political context in which we have come to
understand what constitutes an ethical global imagination. A
critical reading of the world calls for the need to examine
alternative ways of knowing and teaching about the world: a
pedagogy that recognizes how diverse subjects have come to view the
world. A critical question this book raises is: What are the
radical ways of re-conceptualizing curriculum knowledge about
global societies so that we can become accountable to the different
ways people have come to experience the world? Another question the
book raises is: how do we engage with complexities surrounding
social differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, religion, etc.,
in the global contexts? Analyzing global issues and events through
the prism of social difference opens up spaces to advocate a
transformative framework for a global education curriculum.
Transformative in the sense that such a curriculum asks students to
challenge stereotypes and engages students in advocating changes
within local/global contexts. A critical global perspective
advocates the value of going beyond the nation-state centered
approach to teaching about topics such as history, politics,
culture, etc. It calls for the need to develop curriculum that
accounts for transnational formations: an intervention that asks us
to go beyond issues that are confined within national borders. Such
a practice recognizes the complicated ways the local is connected
to the global and vice versa and cautions against creating a
hierarchy between national and global issues. It also suggests the
need to critically examine the pitfalls of forming dichotomies
between the local (or the national) and the global or the center
and the periphery.
General
Imprint: |
Information Age Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2009 |
First published: |
December 2009 |
Authors: |
Subedi
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
230 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-60752-387-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Philosophy of education
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LSN: |
1-60752-387-6 |
Barcode: |
9781607523871 |
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