Date: Mon,  2 Dec 2002 16:03:17 -0800
Subject: Re: International education in postcolonial literature


In the Indigenous/Aboroginal/First Nations Studies, the work of Marie Battiste 
and Linda Smith are about cognitive and methodological decolonization in Canada 
and New Zealand.  There is a burgeoning literature in education in this area.
Here in Canada the issue of education in the colonizing settler institutions is 
a challenge that has been obscured by the "multiculturalism".
Ogbu differentiates between voluntary and involuntary minorities and 
educational success which hold here.  Cross cultural psychology and 
decolonizing methodologies are just beginning to be discussed here in Canada.


Quoting Rebecca Fenton <rebecca.fenton-AT-excite.com>:

>  Hi all,
> 
> I'm doing some research into international education in postcolonial
> literature, specifically colonised children who go to the colonising
> country/culture for education.  I can come up with plenty of fictional
> examples of this, for example, in the writing of Mukheerjee, Achebe, Naipaul,
> etc.  I'm now on the hunt for theoretical works that deal with this issue and
> also biographical/autobiographical accounts of this phenomenon  any ideas?
> 
> Rebecca
> 
> 
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