Postcolonialism and Education: Challenging Traditions and Disrupting Boundaries

Postcolonialism and Education brings together the essays of established contributors and emergent scholars who provide a critical exploration and assessment of the relevance of postcolonialism foreducation research and practice. The quality of the essays combined with a relay of topics explored by different writers provides exciting and compellinganalyses of the significance of postcolonial theory for local, nationaland international education theory, practice, and policy. Postcolonialism and Education promotes a dialogue about how we can harness and use the rich and almost subversive insights of postcolonialism for learning, teaching,curriculum and research. Engaging well-known ideas as well as unexploredareas of interest, Postcolonialism and Education deepens our understanding and stimulates alternative and radical analyses thatinterrogate and disrupt traditional knowledges and preconceptions abouteducation. This an essential collection that theorists, practitioners,administrators and students within education and beyond will not want tobe without.

Derek C. Mulenga is Assistant Professor of Adult Education, Instructional Systems and Workforce Education and Development, Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor of Globalization and Lifelong Education: Critical Perspectives.