Check your orientalism at the door: Edward Said, Sanjay Seth, and the adequacy of Western pedagogy

Christina Paschyn

doi:10.1353/jge.2014.0020

Check your orientalism at the door: Edward Said, Sanjay Seth, and the adequacy of Western pedagogy

Christina Paschyn^*

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Abstract

Western pedagogy and its preconceived notions of the non-Western world can limit scholars from developing accurate understandings of culturally different societies. Western academics teaching at foreign and Western institutions abroad must be mindful of how ingrained and subconscious Orientalist thinking can distort and hinder their interactions with local students.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	222-231
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of General Education
Volume	63
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/jge.2014.0020
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

Keywords

Colonial education
Modernity
Orientalism
Western pedagogy
Westernization

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Education

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