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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"eurocentric"”.
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The discourse of sŏnjin’guk: South Korea’s Eurocentric modern identities and worldviews
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Critical race theory in education: analyzing African American students’ experience with epistemological racism and eurocentric curriculum
… transmitted to African American students through Eurocentric curricula and thus can perpetuate racism. Recognizing that American curricula originates from social control elements and that schools are institutions responsible for preparing students for the world they live in (Apple, 2004; Apple & …
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Beholding the Beauty of Self: The Psychological Integration of the Afrocentric-Self among African-American Females Socialized in a Eurocentric Aesthetic
… that gender and racial influences, embedded in a Eurocentric aesthetic, play a significant role in providing culturally competent mental health care. Dimensional analysis was used in this grounded theory study to produce theoretical understandings of these societal and psychological issues. The …
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Afrikan contribution to international relations theory: an Afrocentric philosophical enquiry
… to have become a typical platform wherein the Eurocentric driven masternarratives have become consolidated, as the norm. The interrogation of pedagogy thus led to concerns of indoctrination, as a direct result of the dogmatic views (as specifically derived and driven by the literature of …
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Bong Joon-Ho’s Transnational Challenge To Eurocentrism
… show how Bong Joon-ho’s films destabilize the Eurocentric perspective of traditional cinema. Moreover, it will become clear how the transnational character of Bong Joon-ho’s films and their form of distribution has the potential to engender deconstructive viewing positions, and by doing so, …
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Kimberley Women : Their Experiences of Making a Remote Locality Home
… Australia, pre-dominantly written from a male Eurocentric viewpoint, scant attention has been drawn to the everyday lives of country women. The study described in this dissertation explores the responses of women to the challenges of relocation and settlement within a remote locality in the …
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Palestinian young people’s perspectives and experiences of human rights, inside and outside schools: a participatory qualitative study in the occupied West Bank
… and their teachers are aware that the largely Eurocentric and decontextualized vision of human rights underpinning HRE in schools is a far cry from their everyday experiences. This raises questions about how Palestinian young people (primarily) and their educators understand, articulate and …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
… it examines Hegel's influence in building the Eurocentric world. He expounds a history that is unequivocally teleological, in which non-European people and ways of thinking are stepping-stones to the more highly evolved European, Christian culture. The events of history have been the unfolding …
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INTEGRATING CULTURALLY SUSTAINING PEDAGOGY TO DISRUPT OPPRESSIVE PRACTICE
… of English language learners. The conservative, Eurocentric approaches to education that made the school attractive historically are still deeply engrained in the organizational structure and pedagogy of the school and now support problematic and highly inequitable educational practices that …
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Socio-political and cultural identity in the visual arts in Namibia: A study of transitional and post-independent Namibian visual arts, focusing on John Muafangejo, Joseph Madisia and Ndasuunye Shikongeni
… Namibian visual artists have shifted from the Eurocentric influences of Namibian artists prevalent during the colonial period. Transitional and post-independence indigenous Namibian visual artists use their cultural backgrounds, traditional practices, fantasies, beliefs, socio-political …
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Reclaiming Humanity in the Global Borderlands: Collective Homeplace Praxis among Women of Color Educators in International Schools
… residue, where neoliberal individualism and Eurocentric expertise are commodified at the expense of relational, embodied ways of being and knowing. This research addressed the systemic marginalization of women of color (WoC) educators in these liminal sites, where institutional comfort masks …
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Pietermaritzburg as an Afrikan City: Re-establishing the Identity of the Central Business District
… discourse has been strongly in favour of Eurocentric narratives and ideologies. As a result, cities around South Afrika continue to hold a legacy which restricts and hinders their development towards becoming more just, inclusive and sustainable for its current and future occupants. …
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AN AFROCENTRIC RE-EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AROUND THE AFRIKAN REVOLUTION IN AYITI
… “objectivity,” European historians and other Eurocentric scholars make it a point to universalize their own interpretations of different people’s histories and cultures. This type of scholarship tends to ignore or omit the contributions and historical realities of Afrikan people. This case is …
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The Pure Heart: A Medieval Japanese Buddhist Political Theory of Legitimacy
… narratives stemming from the currently-dominant Eurocentric belief-system, contemporary works on legitimacy generally avoid the inclusion of ‘belief’ as a core analytical tool. However, pioneer of social science studies Max Webber clarified in The Profession and Vocation of Politics (1919) the …
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Indigenization of the music curriculum through Maskandi as a learning programme in two selected South African universities
… universities to investigate the dominance of Eurocentric world view in music education. The study used Ethnomusicology and Constructivism as theoretical frameworks which underpin the study. Interpretivist paradigm was adopted as an appropriate paradigm for the study. Data was solicited through …
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Orientalism and its Challenges: Feminist Critiques of Orientalist Knowledge Production
… contribute toward decolonizing the dynamics of Eurocentric knowledge and power relations in literature and representation? This dissertation grapples with a number of feminist critiques of Orientalism in order to theorize notions of female agency and problematize depictions of passivity, …
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Between Coloniality And Transmodernity:latino/a Fictional Responses To U.s. Interventionism In Latin America
… scholar Enrique Dussel criticizes the Eurocentric category of “modernity” with its emphasis on only one intra-European line of historical development and he calls for a “transmodern project”; the effort to include the positions and perspectives of those on the periphery who were erased …
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Sonic Knowledge Production in Archaeoacoustics: Echoes of elsewhere?
… challenges the visually-dominant epistemology of Eurocentric thought. In the first in-depth analysis of how sonic knowledge is produced in the field to date, this thesis uses interviews of researchers as well as participant-observer fieldwork at the caves of Isturitz-Oxocelhaya and Arcy-sur-Cure, …
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Evaluating the decolonisation of the Humanities curriculum at the University of Cape Town: Khanyisa courses as a case study
… by means of disrupting and challenging the Eurocentric traditions of teaching and assessing the course. The thesis argues that the ELL1013F course does decolonial work in that it adopts a paradigm shift away from Eurocentric traditions within the discipline of literary studies. The course …
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A Performance Guide of George Crumb’s Metamorphoses Book II, for Amplified Piano with Critical Perspectives on its Visual Inspirations
… imagery into music. The study addresses the Eurocentric and predominantly male focus of the paintings chosen for Metamorphoses, arguing that alternative visual frameworks that are more inclusive of women and broader in representation, can expand possibilities for performers and scholars …
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