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Author: Arthur Cardoso de Andrade

Educating Educators for Social Change: Reflections and Actions

The challenge before us is: how can we build and prioritize these intercultural and inter-epistemic, democratic, and pluriversal dialogues, over the monopoly of the Euro-Western canon? How can we foster a critical interculturality that promotes the emancipatory values of cognitive, racial, and social justice? (Reis, 2022, p. 9) These questioning words of Brazilian Black scholar […]

Decolonizing the university is also about unoccupancy 

Decolonizing University Unoccupancy

I recently watched a video in which Professor Danieli Balbi (currently serving as a state deputy) recounts her experience teaching her first class in higher education – she was the first black transgender professor in the history of UFRJ. Considering her identity(ies) and all the socio-cultural implications, both external and internal to the university, that persist […]