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43.042 - Reexamining Teacher Efficacy and Politicized Curriculums Through Postcolonial and Decolonizing Lenses

Sun, April 7, 8:00 to 9:30am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 200 Level, Room 201E

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This symposium is a follow-up to a round-table session presented at a previous AERA Annual Meeting. The ensuing challenge that was accepted by the presenting authors, who were all educators working in post-colonial, post-independent spaces in Caribbean and Africa, was for them to begin review and revise their work on those affected by educational reforms, in the light of postcolonial and decolonization lenses. This symposium represents a re-examination of their previous work through the ideas from postcolonial theorists such as Franz Fanon and Edward Said and decolonizing methodologist, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. These accounts will also examine ways in which these researchers have disrupted their perceptions of their work as a result of adopting postcolonial and decolonizing theoretical frameworks.

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