Possibilities and Agency in Postcolonial, Global Contexts of Education: Rethinking Identities, Pedagogies, and Histories

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The presentations in this symposium employ postcolonial and globalization theories in order to identify, challenge, and resist colonial oppression and its insidious and obvious attachments to global capitalism that continue to infiltrate education. Drawing on theoretical analyses of texts, historical records, ethnographic data, and curricular contexts the presenters illuminate opportunities for agency through a critical rethinking of identities, pedagogies, and histories in diverse educational contexts. Each presenter shares work devoted to determining ways to combat, transgress, and dismantle globalized oppressions within and across national borders. As such, the symposium aims to illuminate and enhance possibilities for equity and justice through work in terms of educational theory, research, and practice in order to address shared concerns across diverse contexts.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Postcolonial Studies and Education

Chair

• Nina Asher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Papers

• Immigrant Youth, Discrepant Identities, and Young Adult Literature - E. Sybil Durand, Arizona State University

• Critical Examination of Student Labeling in Reading Educational Practice, Theory, and Research: A Call for Pedagogical Reflection and Student Liberation - Christopher Kolb, BASIS - San Antonio North

• Properly Mourning: Postcolonial Melancholia and Education in Global Times - Justin Grinage, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Global Forums of Testimony: Postcolonial Implications for Education - Aparna Mishra Tarc; Paul Richard Tarc, University of Western Ontario

• Rebeldes y Ciudadanos: Embodied Pedagogies of Democratic Resistance in Chile - Patrick Michael O'Malley

Discussant

• Nina Asher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities