FreshEd #256 – Decolonizing Education (Riyad A. Shahjahan, Annabelle L. Estera & Kirsten T. Edwards)
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The Importance of Context in Decolonizing
I think one of the things that we have to be very careful of when we talk about any decolonizing project is talking about magic bullets or there are best practices because it's so context specific. It's a really tricky balance to sort of, you know, I mean, even if you're working with different local communities, it's impossible probably to have representation of all of those local communities in one class. One of the problems with linear notions of time is this idea of utopia. And actually, we problematize such projects because it assumes again a Eurocentric modernity perspective of universality and objectivity.
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