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September 7, 2017 By Joan Smith

Academic Decolonisation: The Slippery Slope of Dismantling Knowledge

The discourse surrounding academic decolonisation furnishes today’s intellectual and moralistic justifications for racism, argues Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Although some proponents of decolonisation education claim to be humanising academic knowledge, all they are really doing is stripping it of its important, potentially transformative features.

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Filed Under: Article Elsewhere Tagged With: academia, decolonisation, education, schools, universities

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