Decolonizing Education: Towards Reconstructing a Theory of Citizenship Education for Postcolonial Africa (Bürgerbewusstsein)

Norah Barongo-Muweke aims to reconstruct a theory of citizenship education for the postcolonial South. She works towards fostering scientific construction and mainstreaming of postcoloniality as analytical category, dimension of gender, policy, sustainable learning and societal transformation. A consistent conceptual framework for theorising together gender and postcoloniality is absent so far. In her analyses citizenship awareness and its bedrock institutions are eroded. Contents Deconstructing Postcolonial Ambivalence in Educational Perspective Decolonization Sociological Invisiblization Political Didactic Structuring of Consciousness The Need for Localizing Research Clarifying Philosophical Underpinnings Target groups Researchers, teachers and students in social and educational science Educational planers, educationists, curriculum developers, policy makers, international development partners and academic funding institutions The Author Dr. Norah Barongo-Muweke is a Post-doc scientist at the Center for South-North Cooperation in Educational Research and practice at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in scientific collaboration with AGORA Politische Bildung, Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover Norah Barongo-Muweke aims to reconstruct a theory of citizenship education for the postcolonial South. She works towards fostering scientific construction and mainstreaming of postcoloniality as analytical category, dimension of gender, policy, sustainable learning and societal transformation. A consistent conceptual framework for theorising together gender and postcoloniality is absent so far. In her analyses citizenship awareness and its bedrock institutions are eroded. Contents Deconstructing Postcolonial Ambivalence in Educational Perspective Decolonization Sociological Invisiblization Political Didactic Structuring of Consciousness The Need for Localizing Research Clarifying Philosophical Underpinnings Target groups Researchers, teachers and students in social and educational science Educational planers, educationists, curriculum developers, policy makers, international development partners and academic funding institutions The Author Dr. Norah Barongo-Muweke is a Post-doc scientist at the Center for South-North Cooperation in Educational Research and practice at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in scientific collaboration with AGORA Politische Bildung, Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover Front Matter....Pages 1-19 Introduction....Pages 21-40 Deconstructing postcolonial ambivalence: Clarifying the Expert Perspective....Pages 41-57 Exogenousization: Definition & Background....Pages 59-70 Integrating consciousness as analytical category & the scientific framing of citizenship awareness (Bürgerbewusstsein)....Pages 71-96 Discussion in postcolonial perspective....Pages 97-107 Sketching the theoretical scope for explicating the configuration of mental models of citizenship awareness in postcolonial perspective....Pages 109-179 Sociological invisiblization....Pages 181-197 Application of citizenship awareness research, postcolonial and feminist gender theories to policy and institutional settings....Pages 199-212 Performative dance drama as empirical worlds for postcolonial bottom-up theory building....Pages 213-237 The need for localizing research – decolonization of knowledge generation....Pages 239-247 Clarifying philosophical underpinnings....Pages 249-258 Focus....Pages 259-270 Summary of core findings and implications for future orientation....Pages 271-314 Back Matter....Pages 315-324