Your Gender TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION Glossary
All the key terms you need to understand when preparing for Gender Transformative Education, quickly and effectively.
What is Decolonial?
Definition
Decolonial refers to ways of being and knowing outside of Western coloniality . It involves the resurgence of diverse forms of knowledges, histories, and ways of being. Indigenous feminists assert that decolonization requires the material restitution of land and life.
Gender transformative education calls for decolonial curriculum and pedagogy. Decolonial curriculum centers the knowledges, ways of being, histories and political struggles of the majority world and subjugated groups. Decolonial teaching and learning leads to individual and collective liberation of mind and spirit from coloniality, and ideas of inferiority handed down generation to generation among the colonized and post-colonial.
References
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