Research on Decolonial Education by Ayse Durmus https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri Decolonization of Colleging en-us 2020-11-16 23:35:43 UTC 2020-11-19 02:51:17 UTC hello@padlet.com ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929658088 “...coloniality is, as Maldonado-Torres (2010) notes, the air we breathe ‘all the time and every day’ (97), infused even into our equity-oriented thinking”

]]> 2020-11-16 23:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929658088 ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929659631 We must find ways to innovate by thinking the world differently, being decolonial in intention and practice, and asking uncomfortable questions about ours and our novices’ place in the world, while we consider what knowledges, ways of being, and definitions of success we value, and are privileging in our praxis in radically different ways. (Michael Dominguez, 2019)

]]> 2020-11-16 23:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929659631 ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929660797 Billings (2000) has noted, even when our instruction seeks to be more robustly critical in orientation, we are far more likely to centre critical theorists like Giroux or McLaren, White scholars of the Frankfurt tradition, as ‘new’ epistemologies to consider in examination of the lived experiences of people of colour, than theorists of colour from the global south themselves.

]]> 2020-11-16 23:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929660797 ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929661415  Our common deployments of social justice, diversity, and equity are simply forms of mimicry; (well-intentioned) arguments made through the ‘white gaze’ (Morrison 1998) of colonizing epistemic frameworks.]]> 2020-11-16 23:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929661415 ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929661880 ... to end coloniality, to destabilize the zero
point, to decolonize, is not a calm, gentle, and rational exchange. It insists on disruption,
on convulsion, on unrest. To be epistemically uncomfortable is a necessity, for we cannot
be gentle with oppression, with coloniality, or with the colonial zero point. (Fanon)]]> 2020-11-16 23:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/929661880 "Are we challenging educators and ourselves, to press into unknown terrain, beyond the old, worn, and faulty paths that lead inexorably on a dehumanizing march toward whiteness?" M. Dominguez (2017) ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/938124250 2020-11-18 18:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/938124250 "...the heart of coloniality is not individual, or even systemic, actions or knowledge or content; it is about how we see, understand, and value the humanity of others: It is not the colonialist self or the colonized Other, but the disturbing distance in-between that constitutes the figure of colonial otherness" (Bhabba, 1994, p.45) ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/938145013 2020-11-18 18:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/938145013 “Only in meaningfully considering epistemic perspectives on liberation, power, and marginalization that emerge from the global south and historically marginalized communities’ material and affective experiences (without seeking to translate these through lenses of Whiteness) can there be authentic appreciation of the assets and brilliance of subaltern communities, and can ontological distance begin to close.”(Michael Dominguez, 2019) ayseyawuz https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/938173537 2020-11-18 18:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ayseyawuz/ngen06u6nsrwdqri/wish/938173537