Description
Book SynopsisThis book approaches notions of Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems, through a team of expert contributors who share their evidence-based knowledge constructed within diverse geo-political borders. It explores the disjuncture, assumptions, and beliefs associated with the concepts of Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems, to reveal avenues for reconsidering untapped bodies of knowledge and how they are being positioned within teaching, learning and researching in higher education.
This volume is built on conceptual and theoretical insights from a range of different disciplines, and explores the social-historical underpinnings of Being, 'becoming' and 'to be'. The book deepens understanding on Indigeneity and how culturally diverse, environmentally sustaining, interculturally and transnationally unprecedented, alternative knowledges have long been disregarded as globally irrelevant and intellectually insignificant. It attempts to address the missing connections between what is recognised as 'global knowledge' and the locally situated, underrepresented knowledges that are being constructed within diverse types of peripheries across contexts.
This edited volume is essential reading for academics, researchers, policy-makers and students in higher education.
Table of ContentsForeword; Joseph Lo Bianco
Introduction: Unravelling; Margaret Kumar and Thushari Welikala
Part I. Being
Chapter 1. Theorising the concept of Being in Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Changing Face of Research Relationships; Margaret Kumar
Chapter 2. Being, Relationality and Ethical Know-How in Indigenous Research; Estelle Barrett
Chapter 3. Connection and Disconnection: My Personal Story to Being; Devena Monro
Chapter 4. Conceptualising Teaching Spaces: The Intersection of Being, Belonging and Becoming; Jennifer Valcke, Raman Preet, Michael Knipper, and Karin Båge
Chapter 5. Constructing Difficult Knowledge and Self: Teaching Literary Texts in Kenya; Kiprono Langat
Part II. Being and Interculturality
Chapter 6. Modes of Being across and between Cultures: Opportunities for Understanding the pluriverse; Jacques Boulet
Chapter 7. Self-cultivation and Self-awareness: Chinese Gen Z studying in Australia; Fengqi Qian and Guo-qiang Liu
Chapter 8. Sociocultural Plurality in Sri Lanka: Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems; Shihan de Silva
Chapter 9. Diverse Pedagogical Positioning in Plurilingual Higher Education: Affordances of Inter-Cultural Being; Mahtab Janfada
Chapter 10. Being in Pain: Using Images and Participatory Methods to Explore Intercultural Understanding of Pain; Deborah Padfield and Mary Wickenden
Chapter 11. Be-longing in Higher Education: Interculturality as Process and Outcome; Jeanine Gregersen Hermans
Chapter 12. Self, Other and Interculturality: An Epistemic Shift Toward Intersensoriality; Thushari Welikala
Part III. Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems
Chapter 13. Recovering Unrecognised deCentred Experience; Adrian Holliday
Chapter 14. Inside out? Individual Agency and Professional Identity in the Era of Internationalization in Higher Education; Kevin Haines and Joram Tarusarira
Chapter 15. Positive Outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education and the Visual Arts; Jennifer Murray-Jones
Chapter 16. Adopting Ubuntu in Teaching Social Work; Ndungi wa Mungai
Chapter 17. Gandhi, Value Creation, and Global Education: Intercultural Perspectives on Education for Citizenship; Namrata Sharma
Chapter 18. Reclaiming the Future?; Sheila Trahar
Chapter 19. COVID-19, The Crossing of Borders, New Knowledge Systems and their relationship to Higher Education Systems; Margaret Kumar
Chapter 20. Many Cultures or None? Sighting and Assessing a Post-Cultural Pedagogical Paradigm; Thushari Welikala and Ronald Barnett
Concluding Remarks; Thushari Welikala and Margaret Kumar
