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Delinking Global Issues in Northern Europe Classrooms
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Sund, Louise; Pashby, Karen – Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
This article builds from scholarship in Environmental Education Research (EER) and Critical Global Citizenship Education calling for more explicit attention to how teaching global issues is embedded in the colonial matrix of power. We also consider the extent to which recent calls in EER for explicit attention to coloniality connect to discussions…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Approach, World Problems, Ethics
Critiquing Coloniality, 'Epistemic Violence' and Western Hegemony in Comparative Education -- The Dangers of Ahistoricism and Positionality
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Vickers, Edward – Comparative Education, 2020
Claims regarding Western neo-colonial domination over scholarship in Comparative and International Education (CIE) have recently commanded much attention -- for example in a 2017 special issue of the journal "Comparative Education Review" (CER) on the theme of 'contesting coloniality.' Stressing their marginal 'positionality,' the…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, Cultural Influences, Western Civilization, Comparative Education
Postcolonial and Cosmopolitan Connections: Teaching Anglophone Singapore Literature for Nation and World
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Poon, Angelia – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
This article argues for the importance and relevance of postcolonial studies in achieving the goal of cosmopolitanism through Literature education. Having significantly redrawn the overall contours of literary study in the twentieth century, postcolonial studies as an interdisciplinary critical tradition provides us with a conceptual vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Literature, Postcolonialism, Global Approach