Culture, Education, and Community

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: Imagining the Postcolonial

   • Jennifer Lavia, Sechaba Mahlomaholo

   Pages 1-13

3. Postcolonial Thought: A Theoretical and Methodological Means for Thinking through Culturally Ethical Research

   • Laurette Bristol

   Pages 15-32

4. Validating Community Cultural Wealth: Toward Sustainable Empowering Learning Environments

   • Sechaba Mahlomaholo

   Pages 33-47

5. Rethinking Education in South Africa: Amplifying Liberation Pedagogy

   • Milton Molebatsi Nkoane, Jennifer Lavia

   Pages 49-67

6. The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies: A Postcolonial Analysis of Language and Schooling

   • Antonia Darder, Miren Uriarte

   Pages 69-102

7. Súil Eile: A Different Perspective on Migration, Language Acquisition, Belonging, and Multicultural Society

   • Simon Warren

   Pages 103-124

8. Reimagining Lines of Flight in Schooling for Indigenous Students in Australia

   • Bob Lingard, Greg Vass, Elizabeth Mackinlay

   Pages 125-146

9. Border Crossing: Conversations About Race, Identity, and Agency in South Africa

   • Dennis Francis

   Pages 147-162

10. Constructing a Nation: The Role of Arts Education in South Africa

    • Lorraine Singh

    Pages 163-182

11. Calypso, Education, and Community in Trinidad and Tobago: From the 1940s to 2011

    • Gordon Rohlehr

    Pages 183-210

12. More in de Mortar dan de Pestle: Recruitment into Secondary Teaching in Trinidad and Tobago

    • Joyanne De Four-Babb

    Pages 211-234

13. Comparative Collaboration: A Transgressive Academic Practice of Being and Becoming

    • Laurette Bristol, Joyanne De Four-Babb, Talia Esnard, Jennifer Lavia, Lisa Perez

    Pages 235-253

14. Conclusion: Postcolonial Strivings

    • Jennifer Lavia, Sechaba Mahlomaholo

    Pages 255-259

15. Back Matter

    Pages 261-269

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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.

• education
• educational research
• Interpretation
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'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

JENNIFER M. LAVIALecturer and Director of the Caribbean Programme in the School of Education at The University of Sheffield, UK.
SECHABA MAHLOMAHOLOResearch Professor in the School of Education at North West University in Potchefstoom, South Africa.

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