Overview
- Combines postcolonialism, feminism, and pedagogy in an accessible manner
- Examines both official school-based colonial education and the unofficial colonial curriculum of the media and popular culture
- Presents contemporary art as a foundation for postcolonial pedagogy
Part of the book series: Explorations of Educational Purpose (EXEP, volume 18)
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About this book
In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are molded and prejudice kept at bay, yet the legacy of colonialism continues to pervade official education received in classrooms as well as ‘unofficial’ education ingested via popular culture and the media. The result is a variety of distorted images of women and gender in which women appear as two-dimensional stereotypes.
The text analyzes both current and historical colonial representations of women in a pedagogical context. In doing so, it seeks to recast our conception of what ‘difference’ is, challenging historical, patriarchal gender relations with their stereotypical representations that continue to marginalize minority populations in the first world and billions of women elsewhere. These distorted images, the book argues, can be subverted using the semiology provided by postcolonialism and transnational feminism and the work of contemporary artists who rethink and recontextualize the visual codes of colonialism. These resistive images, created by women who challenge and subvert patriarchal modes of representation, can be used to create educational environments that provide an alternative view of women of non-western origin.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postcolonial Representations of Women
Book Subtitle: Critical Issues for Education
Authors: Rachel Bailey Jones
Series Title: Explorations of Educational Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1551-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1550-9Published: 12 June 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3652-8Published: 02 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1551-6Published: 11 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1875-4449
Series E-ISSN: 1875-4457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 236
Topics: Education, general, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Creativity and Arts Education, Gender Studies