Chauhan, Rhea Suresh
(2019)
Indigenous education : alternatives to culturally hegemonic
education.
Students’ Journal of Education and Development (5).
pp. 45-55.
Abstract
Education is an underestimated vehicle for development and
this is only being realised now. Countries strive to attain goals of skilled
resourceful labour, which, in turn, would actively contribute to the economy
and development. But in a bid to achieve the aims set, the programmes
and the laws override the actual needs, the language and cultural rights
of minorities, especially indigenous people. In a manner, the purpose that
education served during colonial rule is replicated in the context of the
nation today, wherein the government/elite/dominant/majority assume the
role of the coloniser through the process of “institutionalised colonisation”.
This is a form of modern-day cultural hegemony, which could be detrimental
to growth and development.
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