The World Looks Like This from Here: Thoughts on African Psychology

The World Looks Like This from Here

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The World Looks Like This from Here: Thoughts on African Psychology

The World Looks Like This from Here

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Builds a compelling case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa

What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African-with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre? Questions such as these are what Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.

Book Details

ISBN
9781776143948
Binding
Hardcover
Authors
Kopano Ratele
Publisher
Wits University Press
Published Date
September 1, 2019
Language
English
Pages
152
Physical Info
0.69 in H x 9 in L x 6 in W (1.11 lb)

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