Critical Perspectives on the Denial of Caste in Educational Debate - Towards a Non-Derivative Curriculum Reason

This volume represents the first exploraiton of caste in the field of curriculum studies, challenging the ongoing silence around the issue of caste in education and curriculum theory.

List of contents

1. On Caste: Towards Critical, Non-Derivative Caste Curriculum Studies 2. Caste: a Division of Labour and Labourers 3. The Caste Context 4. Archaeology of Untouchability 5. The Word and the World: Dalit Aesthetics as a Critique of Everyday Life 6. Casteocracy: A Millennium Standard of Merit and Tests 7. Reading Foucault's History of Madness to Obliterate Caste in Hindu-Majority Indian Society 8. Epistemological Untouchability: The Deafening Silence of Indian Academics 9. Critical and Caring Pedagogies: Habermas and Ambedkar at the Intersections of Caste and Gender 10. Contextualizing the Emergence of Dalit Studies in Indian Academia 11. Economic Reservation as Caste and Cultural Power: Posing Challenges to Representation, Equality and Diversity in Kerala, India

About the author

João M. Paraskeva is Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Mozambican-born, he is an award-winning pedagogue and critical social theorist. The critique places him as 'undeniably one of the most acclaimed curriculum theorists in the world today.'

Summary

This volume represents the first exploraiton of caste in the field of curriculum studies, challenging the ongoing silence around the issue of caste in education and curriculum theory.

Product details

• Authors: Joao M. (University of Massachusetts Da Paraskeva
• Assisted by: João M. Paraskeva (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9780367725112
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72511-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Comparative, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Multicultural education, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy