Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Samia Costandi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 320 ISBN: 9783659395925
Описание
This book explores the life and work of a philosophy of education and multicultural education teacher, through the use of narrative inquiry. As a Palestinian/Lebanese Canadian researcher, teacher, mother, activist and writer, Dr Costandi presents the journey of freeing herself from colonial grand narratives through the construction of her personal, practical knowledge and values, while providing an answer to the question: “What does it mean to be situated on the boundary between the English West and the Middle Eastern Arab world?” Dr Costandi demonstrates how the Orientalist tradition, as defined by Edward Said (1978), served to confuse, frustrate, and alienate her as an embodied person situated within a web of historical, ethnic, linguistic, social, and cultural tensions. She describes how, having been educated in an English missionary school in the context of a Palestinian culture of dispossession and Diaspora, this education served to paradoxically both estrange and enrich her. ...