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Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education

Critical Reflections on the Epistemic Intersections of Location, Knowledge, and Learning

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In describing the rise in the production of global citizenship education scholarship in the past little while, one could not help but assume that something very good must be happening in this important realm of social and educational research. Indeed, as should be expected, the emergence of certain areas of study and/or the sudden expansion of such areas will not be detached from the important and time-space conjectured moments that, more or less, entice us to think or re-think about the nature as well as new ways of perceiving, analyzing and doing social research in general and specialized educational research in particular.

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Abdi, A.A. (2015). Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education. 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_2

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