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35.015 - Rethinking Knowledge in the Context of Our Contemporary Crisis
Fri, April 17, 4:05 to 6:05pm, Hyatt, Floor: East Tower - Gold Level, Grand CDEFSession Type: Invited Speaker Session
Abstract
Drawing on their experiences in the US, South America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean, four scholars will discuss various epistemological perspectives –epistemologies of the South, an Afrocentric Critical orientation; the necessity of re-thinking knowledge and what it means to be human—in the context of our contemporary social and educational crises.
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The Structure of European Knowledge and Its Implications for Contemporary Crises Among African People - Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University
Epistemologies of the South and Education: Denouncing Epistemicide and Bringing in the Struggles for Dignity and Liberation in the Classroom - Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Centro de Estudos Sociais
Rethinking Knowledge, Rethinking Our Contemporary Global Crisis: Towards an Emancipatory Way-of-Knowing/Mode-of-Being, for Our Ecumenically-Human’s Sake - Jason Ambroise, William Paterson University
Rethinking Knowledge in Brazil: A Perspective from the Black Movement - Petronilha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva, Federal University of Sao Carlos