Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in African and Euro-Asian Contexts: Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices (ISSN)

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Synopsis
This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions.With a focus on representations and classroom practices related especially to ancient and Indigenous wisdom traditions and cultures, it includes unique contributions from scholars studying these questions in various contexts. The book offers a range of important studies from key African and Euro-Asian contexts, including Afghanistan, Albania, Greece, Iran, South Africa, Sweden, Türkiye, and Zimbabwe. The various chapter contributions address and discuss nuances of each of the contexts under study. The contributions also help highlight some key commonalities across these contexts, including how dominant discourses and various forces have historically shaped—and continue to shape and reproduce—such omissions, misrepresentations, and marginalization. In addition to seeking to reconcile with some of these ancient and Indigenous wisdom traditions and cultures, the book charts a path forward towards more holistic analytical frameworks as well as more inclusive and balanced representations and classroom practices in these aforementioned geographic contexts and beyond.It will appeal to scholars, researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students with interests in Indigenous education, curriculum studies, citizenship education, history of education, religion, and educational policy.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781040095850
Related ISBNs:
9781003482307, 9781040095836, 9781032766737
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Ehaab D. Abdou and Theodore G. Zervas
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Education
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Ehaab Abdou
Edited by:
Theodore Zervas

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