Department Head
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
His research centrally focuses on the role of education in social well-being with special emphasis on the historical and cultural contexts of learning and teaching. Dr. Abdi’s academic work has impacted ways of decolonizing the philosophies and methodologies of knowledge, thus re-centering the locations of previously marginalized discourses and pedagogies. In addition, he studies processes of globalization and global citizenship with special emphasis on educational policy and attached power relations.
International education; International development; Global citizenship; Postcolonial studies.
Contributions:
Education in Somalia: History, destruction and calls for reconstruction
Culture, education and development in South Africa: Historical and contemporary perspectives
Decolonizing philosophies of education
Education and the politics of difference: Select Canadian perspectives (with Ratna Ghosh)
Educating for human rights and global citizenship (with Lynette Shultz)
Keywords:
International education; International development; Global citizenship; Postcolonial studies.
ali.abdi@ubc.ca
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