MARC Record from University of Toronto

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100 1 $aAdjei, Paul Banahene,$d1970-
245 10 $aDecolonising knowledge production, validation, and dissemination: $bthe relevance of the (selected) works of Memmi, Fanon, and Gandhi to schooling and education in Ghana /$cby Paul Banahene Adjei.
260 $c2005.
300 $avii, 138 leaves.
502 $aThesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 129-138)
520 $aThis thesis examines how the selected works of Mahatma Gandhi, Franz Fanon and Albert Memmi implicate colonial and post-colonial schooling and education in the South, specifically, Ghana.The study focuses on the asymmetrical power relations between conventional and indigenous ways of producing, validating and disseminating knowledge in Ghana, especially the gap that has been created between indigenous knowledges and practices that exist in the community and the dominant knowledges approved in the formal classroom of learning. The project noted that the enthronement of school knowledge as opposed to community knowledge and practices is responsible for the proliferation of intelligentsia who has little stamina in addressing local needs in Ghana.The study utilises the anti-colonial thoughts antiracism prism and Gramscian's ideas of hegemony as discursive frameworks in engaging the voices of Fanon, Memmi, and Gandhi to construct alternative ways of learning that bridges the gap between indigenous and conventional knowledges in formal education in Ghana.
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600 1 $aMemmi, Albert.
600 1 $aFanon, Frantz,$d1925-1961.
600 1 $aGandhi,$cMahatma,$d1869-1948.
650 0 $aEducation$zGhana.
650 0 $aEducation, Colonial.
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