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Solidarity Movements and Decolonization

Exploring a Pedagogical Process

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Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education

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A tragic litany of ever-increasing inequities and global injustices has been well documented for decades; yet there have been few authentic attempts to alleviate this global tragedy, much less take a radical departure from the dominant social, economic and political structures that are built upon the historical foundations of colonialism.

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Chovanec, D.M., Gordon, N., Underwood, M., Butt, S., Díaz, R.S. (2015). Solidarity Movements and Decolonization. In: Abdi, A.A., Shultz, L., Pillay, T. (eds) Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-277-6_13

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