TY  - BOOK
AU  - George Jerry Sefa Dei
PY  - 2011
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
SN  - 9781453901311
TI  - Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education
T2  - A Reader- Foreword by Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0131-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050926
N2  - An important academic goal is to understand ongoing contestations in knowledge in the search to engage everyday social practice and experiences, as well as the social barriers and approaches to peaceful human coexistence. This reader pulls together ideas concerning Indigenous epistemologies (e.g., worldviews, paradigms, standpoints, and philosophies) as they manifest themselves in the mental lives of persons both from and outside the orbit of the usual Euro-American culture. The book engages Indigenous knowledges as far more than a «contest of the marginals», thereby challenging the way oppositional knowledges are positioned, particularly in the Western academy. Subsequently, this book is a call to recognize and acknowledge Indigenous knowledges as legitimate knowings in their own right, and not necessarily in competition with other sources or forms of knowledge. The project offers an opportunity for the critical thinker to continue on a de-colonial/anti-colonial intellectual journey in ways informed by Indigenous theorizing.
KW  - Indigenous knowledges, Decolonization, Spirituality, Resistance, Social transformation, Anti-colonial theory, multiple knowledge
LA  - English
ER  -