Description: Through a series of case studies, this book explores the question of whether Western educational discourse - still the dominant discourse in many countries in the global South - benefits the majority of pupils and helps promote sustainable development in these countries, or whether pedagogies rooted in more indigenous ideologies and discourses would better serve this aim.
Review Quotes:
'The book is a most valuable source of information on problems facing countries in the Global South. It is very well written. I hope it will be read - and discussed - by students, scholars, and aid workers so that they can better understand the problems facing authorities in countries with disadvantaged groups, when structuring the education
system.'- Lars Leer, Forum for Development Studies, February 2015
'This is an important book and one that will provide and provoke in equal measure.'- David Stephens, Comparative Education, January 2015
'This book is highly recommended for students in international education, for development agencies and anyone who is critical to the imposition of Western knowledge on the rest of the world.'- Birgit Brock-Utne, International Review of Education, September 2013
'Breidlid's Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development provides fascinating insight into a number of education systems in the Global South...The book is passionately written, and is evidently the culmination of a considerable period of field research and scholarly practice.'- Patrick L.J. Bailey, British Journal of Sociology of Education, June 2013