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  • 29 - Postcolonial Perspectives on Democratic Education

  • from Part Four - Challenges
  • Edited by Julian Culp, The American University of Paris, France, Johannes Drerup, Universität Dortmund, Douglas Yacek, Universität Dortmund
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
    Published online:
    20 April 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023, pp 494-511

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the conceptual, educational and political challenges involved in articulating a postcolonial perspective on democratic education. It understands democracy as a universal aspiration, a critical practice with a deliberative range that accommodates particular, local contexts. Colonial rule has both provoked and rejected demands for self-determination, while rendering democracy difficult to establish in newly independent states after formal decolonization. Following a description of colonial education, a currently influential yet problematic approach to decolonial education is considered. While some sense might be made of the notions of postcolonial knowledge and epistemology, the decolonialist position – at its most extreme – is epistemologically unviable. The chapter ends by outlining a perspective on postcolonial democratic education as a form of liberal education, universal in some shared features, that needs to resist the universal presence of neoliberal capitalism as a recent form of coloniality that is universally inimical to both education and democracy.