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Reshaping the University:

Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift (Google eBook)
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UBC Press, Jan 1, 2011 - 248 pages
In the past few decades, the narrow intellectual foundations of the university have come under serious scrutiny. Previously marginalized groups have called for improved access to the institution and full inclusion in the curriculum. Reshaping the University is a timely, thorough, and original interrogation of academic practices. It moves beyond current analyses of cultural conflicts and discrimination in academic institutions to provide an indigenous postcolonial critique of the modern university.
Rauna Kuokkanen argues that attempts by universities to be inclusive are unsuccessful because they do not embrace indigenous worldviews. Programs established to act as bridges between mainstream and indigenous cultures ignore their ontological and epistemic differences and, while offering support and assistance, place the responsibility of adapting wholly on the student. Indigenous students and staff are expected to leave behind their cultural perspectives and epistemes in order to adopt Western values. Reshaping the University advocates a radical shift in the approach to cultural conflicts within the academy and proposes a new logic, grounded in principles central to indigenous philosophies.
  

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User Review  - Starleigh - Goodreads

This is a good book. It's really dense, though. I usually read 10 pages of academic writing with my breakfast. With this I read 2-3 pages over breakfast, max. It was slow going (I take notes) and when ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 The Gift
23
2 From Cultural Conflicts to Epistemic Ignorance
49
3 The Question of Speaking and the Impossibility of the Gift
74
4 Knowing the Other and Learning to Learn
97
5 Hospitality and the Logic of the Gift in the Academy
128
Conclusion
156
Afterword
162
Notes
165
Bibliography
195
Index
212
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About the author (2011)

Rauna Kuokkanen is an associate professor of education and indigenous studies at Sami University College, Kautokeino, Norway.

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