Opis:

The greatest myth of our time is the notion that we inhabit a postcolonial world - that (…) the economic, social, and political assault on the so called developing world and its peoples ceased. (…) This collection of essays, both theoretical and empirical, point to the very real necessity to humbly ask non-Western peoples to share their wisdom with the rest of the world and for the West to begin to recognize that it is high time we begin looking elsewhere for answers to our most pressing and persistent problems(...)

                                                                           From the Preface by Prof. Lilia D. Monzó
                                                                           Chapman University, USA

The book makes an important contribution to social sciences, and in particular the sociology of education and the sociology of culture. The manuscripts create a logical and coherent entirety providing an in-depth, interdisciplinary insight into the overall subject of the book(…) The chapters are well embedded in theory and there are no doubts about their methodological correctness(…) The book meets the standards of a high-grade scientific piece of work(…)

                 From the Scientific Review by Prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

The importance of the research and scholarship collected in the volume – potentially determining its world-wide publicity – lays also in the fact that it critically engages
with more universal and general issues related to post-colonial studies…

    
                                                       From the Scientific Review by Prof. Funda Günsoy
                                                                                   Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey

The quote on the front cover comes from Clifford Geertz, "Interpretation of Cultures" 1973 and accompanies the illustration, which is meant to resemble the entanglement of people in different social, educational, ideological, historical, structural, political, economic and symbolic ropes, that have an influence on our place, our world view and our opportunities. The fragility of our world is captured in the glass form of our globe. The awareness of power hierarchies and the willingness to think outside of our own cultural boundaries, brings hope for a brighter & more transparent future.

We wish to thank our readers for their consideration and the individual chapter writers for the spirit of cooperation.

                       The Editors

Anna Odrowaz-Coates & Sribas Goswami