FreshEd #256 – Decolonizing Education (Riyad A. Shahjahan, Annabelle L. Estera & Kirsten T. Edwards)
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The Importance of Moving Beyond Eurocentric Approaches to Knowledge
"We're better if we have multiple ways of thinking through complex ideas," she says. "If you constrain the way I learn and the way I come to be in the world, then you're constraining my ability to live." Decolonizing means questioning what constitutes a human - not about social being but how that gets represented by curricula across different fields. 'How can we even engage if we are not even seen, we're invisible?' asks Dr Moya-Smith.
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