Education and the Politics of Knowledge in the Global South

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This course investigates the politics of knowledge production, or how knowledge, data, and evidence are claimed, captured, and shared in educational development. Students will examine the logics, histories, actors, and power structures at the foundation of contemporary knowledge production and global governance through multiple disciplinary and theoretical lenses. Throughout the course students will reflect on their own positionality within international educational development and consider alternatives to the dominant modes of knowledge production based on decolonial and indigenous epistemologies, creating opportunities to envision otherwise worlds and reparative futures.