Fundamental education and decolonization of the mind.

Autor/in	Castro Varela, María Do Mar
Titel	Fundamental education and decolonization of the mind.
Quelle	In: On education, 3 (2020) 7, 5 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2571-7855
DOI	10.17899/ON_ED.2020.7.10 10.25656/01:23068
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-230680
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungstheorie; Grundbildung; Breitenbildung; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungspolitik; Kolonialismus; Dekonstruktion; Erkenntnistheorie; Ethik; Dekolonisation; Hegemonie; Politik; Alphabetisierung; Aufklärung (Epoche); UNESCO (Organisation der Vereinten Nationen für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Kultur und Kommunikation)
Abstract	Education is a key topic in anticolonial and postcolonial scholarship and activism. There are several reasons for this: Firstly, education was a crucial element of imperialism, as colonial rule without an educational program, which enabled epistemic violence, is almost unthinkable. As Edward Said outlines in Orientalism (1978), it was as vital for colonial powers to teach the 'other' as to study the 'other' (see also Castro Varela & Dhawan, 2020). Only through colonial education, it was possible to produce a colonized population that relied on and trusted European knowledge and internalized specific Eurocentric norms of knowledge production. Colonial education was part and parcel of the civilizational mission, which is why it finds itself in an ambivalent position via-à-vis mass education. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	International Centre for Higher Education Research, Kassel
Update	2021/1