Rethinking the academy beyond Eurocentrism in higher education / Augie Fleras.
| Author/creator | Fleras, Augie, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y. : Peter Lang, [2021] |
| Description | xi, 342 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- Problematizing the academy, calling out Eurocentrism -- Unmasking the academy : continuity in change, couched in compromise -- Conceptualizing Eurocentrism : from worldview to paradigm -- Decolonizing higher education, indigenizing the academy -- Gendered academy, an institutional male space -- Racialized academy : structured in a monocultural whiteness -- Toward an inclusive academy : from inclusion to inclusivity -- Resetting the academy : beyond Eurocentrism. |
| Abstract | "Universities and colleges like to self-idealize as relatively neutral and value-free sites of higher learning. In reality, the idea of the Westernized academy is deeply embedded in a Eurocentric logic that not only excludes alternative forms of knowledge and knowing, but also remains racialized, gendered, and sited in coloniality with respect to governance, scholarship, and entitlements. Efforts to address this gap between the ideal and reality have tended toward diversifying the academy through multicultural initiatives in diversity, inclusion, and equity. However helpful as a first step, these interventions are insufficient in generating the kind of substantive changes that would abort the academy's crisis of legitimacy. Moves to decolonize, ungender, and deracialize the academy will require a commitment to the transformative principles of inclusivity, including a focus on those root causes associated with structural barriers and systemic biases. It remains to be seen if the academia can rise to the challenge of deEurocentrizing the idea of the academy along postEurocentric lines, while engaging the emergent demands and evolving realities of a postmulticultural world"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021001343 |
| ISBN | 9781433176364 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
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