Whose Education? Whose Nation?

Name: Whose Education? Whose Nation?
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ISBN: 9783844321487

ISBN-10: 3844321489

ISBN-13: 9783844321487

Edition: N/A

Authors: Silmi Abdullah

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Through an analysis of Social Studies textbooks of the government primary school curriculum of Bangladesh, this book highlights the role of the education system in pushing poor and ethnic minority children out of school. The texts and graphics are analyzed in order to examine the ways in which they oppress and exclude these children by perpetuating dominant ideologies of nationhood, constructing a notion of the ideal citizen, and criminalizing those who do not fit this category. Using an anti-colonial and post-colonial theoretical framework, the study situates the education system of Bangladesh within its histories of colonial domination and argues that the discourses present in these…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 124
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English