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Publication details [#52368]

Serpell, Robert and Hema Ganapathy-Coleman. 2008. Challenging western hegemony through systematic study of cultural diversity: an undergraduate course on child development and culture. Intercultural Education 19 (2) : 97–104.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Challenging Western hegemony in child developmental psychology, this study argues that combining a(n undergraduate) multicultural classroom with a multicultural syllabus forces students to confront their own intellectual ethnocentrism, varies intellectual experiences and, for minority students, deals with a possibly not yet articulated intellectual lacuna.