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Freeing Ourselves (transgressions: Cultural Studies And Education) by Russell Bishop is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Freeing Ourselves (transgressions: Cultural Studies And Education) about?

This book draws together many previously published articles and book chapters produced by the author over the past 20 years of work in the field of indigenous education. However, rather than just being a compilation of a series of papers, this book is a record of the development of an indigenous approach towards large-scale, theory-based education reform that is now being implemented, in two different forms, in almost half of the secondary schools in New Zealand. Fundamental to this theorising is the understanding, identified by Paulo Freire over forty years ago, that answers to the conditions oppressed peoples find themselves in is not to be found in the language or understandings of the oppressors. Rather, it is to be found in those of the oppressed. This realisation has been confirmed by the examples in this book. The first is seen where it is identified how researching in Maori contexts needs to be conducted dialogically within the world view and understandings of Maori people. Secondly, dialogue in its widest sense is crucial for developing a means whereby Maori students are able to participate successfully in education. The book details how researching the impact of coloniz

Who reads Freeing Ourselves (transgressions: Cultural Studies And Education)?

Author

Russell Bishop

Publisher

Sense Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9789460914157

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Social Science, Social Sciences