The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans
who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of
African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic
Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as «appropriation ambivalence and alternatives
» the authors bring African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in
various sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom
practice memory work and storying to higher education policy and development studies language
and mathematics pedagogy to giftedness and special education. By simultaneously engaging
Western and African worldviews theory policy and practice the twelve essays provide an
intervention in and contribution to critical approaches to education as a comprehensive global
field and as an aspect of African studies.
