Challenging Perceptions of Africa in Schools (eBook, PDF)

Critical Approaches to Global Justice Education
Redaktion: O'Toole, Barbara; Nyaluke, David; Joseph, Ebun

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges educational discourse in relation to teaching about Africa at all levels of the education system in the Global North, with a specific case study focusing on the Republic of Ireland. The book provides an interrogation of the proliferation of negative imagery of and messages about African people and African countries and the impact of this on the attitudes and perceptions of children and young people. It explores how predominantly negative stereotyping can be challenged in classrooms through an educational approach grounded in principles of solidarity, interdependence, and social justice.

The book focuses on the premise that existing educational narratives about the African continent and African people are rooted in a preponderance of racialised perceptions: an 'impoverished' continent dependent on the 'benevolence' of the North. The cycle of negativity engendered as a result of such portrayals cannot be broken until educators engage with these matters and bring critical and inquiry-based pedagogies into classrooms. Insights into three key pedagogical areas are provided - active unlearning, translating critical thinking into meaningful action, and developing a race consciousness.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of education and teacher education. It will be of interest to those involved in youth work, as well as intercultural and global citizenship youth trainers.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429883699
• Artikelnr.: 58470572

Autorenporträt

Barbara O'Toole is a Senior Lecturer at Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland. Ebun Joseph is a Lecturer in Black Studies, Dublin, Ireland. David Nyaluke is the Proudly Made in Africa Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Setting the Context. 1. Approaching Critical Pedagogies in
Education. 2. Learning about Africa and Global Justice. Part 2. Pedagogical
Perspectives. 3. 'Unlearning' in Global Justice Education. 4. Africa as
Pedagogical Playground: Problematising Sending Programmes for Teachers. 5.
Teachers' Experiences of Global Justice Education through the Lens of
Trade. 6. Representations of Africa: Irish NGOs, Media and Educational
Resources. 7. Translating Critical Thinking into Meaningful Action. Part 3.
Intersectionalities: Knowledge Justice, Race, and Education. 8. Knowledge
Justice as Global Justice: Epistemicide, Decolonising the University and
the Struggle for Planetary Survival. 9. Making Sense of Race in Global
Justice Education: Insights from a Racial Stratification Project in
Ireland. 10. Transformative Learning: The Future of Critical Education.