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Table of Contents Theme: Provincializing 'Western Education' Publication: on_education: Journal for Research and Debate Date: No. 7 (April 2020) __________________________________________________ We are delighted to announce that the 7th issue of on_education is now online: https://www.oneducation.net This issue deals with `post- and decolonial´ approaches to educational theory and practice. Starting from historian Dipesh Chakrabarty’s call for ‘provincializing Europe‘, this issue presents a lively debate about the necessity and possibility, the prospects and pitfalls of decolonizing and provincializing ‘Western Education’ in a globalized world. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks and traditions, the authors engage in a much-needed and vigorous debate by offering both well-argued critiques and defenses of ‘Western’ conceptions of education. Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, Rene Suša, Cash Ahenakew & Lynn Mario de Souza take up the thorny issue of `Decoloniality and its discontents´ by engaging in a critical conversation with a recent article by Edward Vickers (2019) on postcolonial critique in comparative education. Julian Culp interrogates various possibilities of provincializing ‘the west’ and warns against the dangers of essentializing ‘the east’. Poonam Batra discusses Indian education reform from the perspective of continuing ‘coloniality‘ and the failures of ‘epistemic justice‘. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach dwells upon “bodies and publics“ in decolonization critiques as discursively deployed in two spatiotemporal contexts (US-American and post-Holocaust Germany). Drawing on the German tradition of the history of education, Phillip Knobloch asks what exactly is to be overcome when debating the problem of Eurocentric perspectives. Kai Horsthemke discusses `the provincialization of epistemology´ itself and questions some of the assertions of ‘(de)colonization’ of knowledge in education. Instead, he makes a case for `an applied epistemology for the real world´ in `the age of the postcolony´. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert draws attention to decolonising discourses in education as symptoms of theoretical and political impasse. William Gaudelli insightfully ponders over the “trouble of Western education“, including the paradox of how to appropriate its own critique. Finally, Miri Yemini draws on the case of a Jewish religious school in Israel to discuss `the religion, globalisation and education triangle´ in the provincialization of contemporary educational discourse. All contributions provide rich food for thought in these challenging times and we are inviting you, as always, to engage in this lively debate. In case you are interested you may write a critical reply to one of the articles. Replies will be processed like invited contributions. This means they will be assessed according to standard criteria of quality, relevance, and civility. Journal website: https://www.oneducation.net __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
