Teaching to disrupt preconceptions: Education for social justice in the imperial aftermath

Teaching to disrupt preconceptions: Education for social justice in the imperial aftermath

• Hickling-Hudson, Anne School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology

Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 41(4), 453-465, 2011

Routledge

2011

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Cross Cultural Studies Politics of Education Postcolonialism Preservice Teacher Education Teaching Methods Preconceptions Social Justice

• Australia
• Jamaica
• Grenada
• Hong Kong
• Great Britain
• United States

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

In this article the author discusses some of the approaches that she takes in challenging student teachers to understand education in global context, rather than in a decontextualised or instrumental way. These approaches draw on the author's experience of being an educator from the 'global South' (the Caribbean) now working in the 'global North' (Australia). As the first black teacher that most Australian student teachers have encountered in their entire education, the author finds that she can offer them provocative educational narratives and questions stemming from a lifetime career in education, studying and working in various roles in schools, colleges, universities and ministries of education in Jamaica, Grenada, Hong Kong, the UK, the USA and Australia. The author sets out to disrupt the preconceptions of her students as a starting point in a collective journey of thinking differently about education.
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Refereed article

• English

Journal Articles

• 03057925

• 10.1080/03057925.2011.581513

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/94b120b2

2014-06-24