Decolonising Intercultural Education Colonial differences, the geopolitics of knowledge, and inter-epistemic dialogue

At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other? This book argues that many recent efforts to theorise interculturality restrict themselves to a variety of interpretations within a Western framework of knowledge, which does not necessarily account for the epistemological diversity of the world. The book suggests an alternative definition of interculturality, framed not in terms of cultural differences, but in terms of colonial difference. It brings analysis of the Latin American concept of interculturalidad into the picture and explores the possibility of decentring the discourse of interculturality and its Eurocentric outlook, seeing interculturality as inter-epistemic rather than simply inter-cultural. Decolonising Intercultural Education will be of interest to educational practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students in in the areas of education, postcolonial studies, Latin American studies and social sciences.

1. Introduction: Interculturality for Whom? 2. Epistemological Privilege in Intercultural Education: From Cultural Differences to a Colonial Difference 3. The Construction of a European Identity in European Union Policies on Interculturality 4. Intercultural Studies and the Commitment to Bridging Otherness 5. The Double Bind of Interculturality in Academic Textbooks 6. Interculturalidad, or Voices from the Underside of the Colonial Difference 7. Conclusion

Robert Aman is Lecturer in Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow.