Reimagining multicultural education: needed transformations at the epistemological level
Fecha
2021Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Capítulo de libro / Liburuen kapitulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.4018/978-1-7998-7649-6.ch010
Resumen
Multicultural education has actively endeavored to undermine inequalities and imbalances by offering pedagogical frameworks for accounting for and managing cultural diversity. However, foundational literature on multicultural education seems to be dominated by Western scholars, mainly American. This assumption is not in alignment with the objectives of critical education which seeks to stymie pow ...
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Multicultural education has actively endeavored to undermine inequalities and imbalances by offering pedagogical frameworks for accounting for and managing cultural diversity. However, foundational literature on multicultural education seems to be dominated by Western scholars, mainly American. This assumption is not in alignment with the objectives of critical education which seeks to stymie power imbalances and grant visibility to less popular individuals along with their cultures, understandings, and perspectives. That is why it is important to ask questions about whether multicultural education has exhibited any signs of seeking to stymie the hegemony of Western episteme in terms of its theory and praxis. This chapter argues that it is necessary to include other epistemologies in multicultural education theory and praxis in order to realize global cognitive justice. The main aim is to make a case for the possibility of further developing multicultural education by integrating other knowledges and ways of knowing. [--]
Materias
Multicultural education
Editor
IGI Global
Publicado en
Gordon, R. K.; Ahmed, K.; Hosoda, M. (Eds.). Evolving multicultural education for global classrooms. Hersey: IGI Global; 2021. p.195-213 978-1-79987-650-2
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute for Advanced Social Research - ICOMMUNITAS