Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education

The ideas for this reader came out of a conference organized through the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) at the University of Alberta in 2013. With the high expansion of global citizenship education scholarship in the past 15

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Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education

Edited by Ali A. Abdi University of British Columbia, Canada Lynette Shultz University of Alberta, Canada and Thashika Pillay University of Alberta, Canada

A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN: 978-94-6300-275-2 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-276-9 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-277-6 (e-book)

Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/

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To our late colleague and friend, Dr. Donna Chovanec, for her tireless efforts to bring change for social justice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsix 1. Decolonizing Global Citizenship: An Introduction Ali A. Abdi, Lynette Shultz and Thashika Pillay 2. Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education: Critical Reflections on the Epistemic Intersections of Location, Knowledge, and Learning Ali A. Abdi 3. Ubuntu, Indigeneity, and an Ethic for Decolonizing Global Citizenship Dalene M. Swanson

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4. Global Citizenship Education: A Skillful Version of Social Transformation39 Tram Truong Anh Nguyen 5. Evil in Citizenship Education Cathryn Van Kessel and Kent Den Heyer 6. Decentring the Myth of Canadian Multiculturalism: A Post-Structural Feminist Analysis Thashika Pillay

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7. Motherhood as a Counter-Hegemonic Reading of Citizenship and Agency 81 Adeela Arshad-Ayaz and M. Ayaz Naseem 8. Facing Academic Minders, the Instruments of Institutional Interference in Higher Education Toni Samek

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9. Global Citizenship or International Trade?: A Decolonial Analysis of Canada’s New International Education Policy Lynette Shultz

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10. The Oecd Neoliberal Governance: Policies of International Testing and Their Impact on Global Education Systems Chouaib el Bouhali

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11. Reclaiming the Citizen and Renouncing Citizenship: A Case Study of an Arab Woman Wisam Abdul-Jabbar

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12. North-South Partnerships in Canadian Higher Education: A Critical Policy Analysis of Contemporary Discourses and Implications for Higher Education Internationalization Allyson Larkin 13. Solidarity Movements and Decolonization: Exploring a Pedagogical Process Donna M. Chovanec, Naomi Gordon, Misty Underwood, Saima Butt and Ruby Smith Díaz 14. Whose Knowledge is Transmitted through Public Education in Africa? Morongwa B. Masemula

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15. 21st Century Learners: Economic Humanism and the Marginalization of Wisdom Vessela Balinska-Ourdeva

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16. Decolonizing Alberta’s Educational Policies to Make Possible the Integration of