Ravindra Kumar
History
March 2021
Due to common experiences with colonialism across the world, education has to be decolonized and made more Indigenous. The need to carefully consider the ways that education has served hegemonic interests will help to inform future educational initiatives and serve as a form of reparation for those Indigenous peoples who have suffered the terrible effects of colonialism in a world divided by on-going conflict that is fuelled by issues of power and control. International organisations like the United Nations support current initiatives to reclaim, restore, and revive endangered traditions alongside a variety of national-level strategies. Decolonizing education means recognising the effects of colonialism on education and striving to disrupt colonial processes, institutions, and structures in educational environments. For example, we mean both formal education as structured through Western schooling and other forms of education such as those traditionally practised within Indigenous families and communities when we use the term
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