decolonial pedogagy
language, subjectivity, and reality are entangled as a matter of essence, not confusion or indistinction. But the colonial situation makes this all the more complicated. If speaking a language means participating in a world and adopting a civilization, then the language of the colonized, a language imposed by centuries of colonial domination and... See more
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colonialism is a total project . It is a project that does not leave any part of the human person and its reality untouched.
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Academics don’t want me to say this… but you’re already a researcher.
Not in the gatekept, prestige-driven way academia defines it — but in the real way knowledge is built:
noticing patterns
reflecting on your own life
making meaning through your stories
watching community... See more
instagram.comThe ability and desire for all people to have access to basic education is one of the most outstanding evolutions of human society, allowing us to progress over the last few thousand years to expand the potential of our entire species and support more equitable access to opportunities around the world.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Through the construct of ‘schooling’, we have designed an environment for conditioning people to see knowledge acquisition as being directly associated with structure (through classes) and success (through grades), when in reality, most of what we learn and adopt as practices is from interacting with the world and through discovering results from... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Human existence cannot be Silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which men and women transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire | Chapter 3
For hooks and Freire, the classroom is a mirror of the world. So, when the world struggles with sexism, racism, and the many types of prejudice shaping social life, our education system struggles with them as well. The space for learning can be one of oppression, or one of liberation.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Decoloniality is a double-faced concept. On one side, it points toward the analytic of coloniality, the darker side of modernity. On the other, it points toward building decolonial futures. In the first case, it is analytic and theoretical. In the second it is utopian. However, the analytic proce-dures are already decolonial: Coloniality is always... See more
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We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of... See more