'Who’s afraid of the call to decolonize higher education?'
Steven Mintz, University of Texas at Austin, at Inside Higher Ed.
"The ever-expanding use of the decolonizing concept has provoked pushback, with two influential scholars, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, arguing that we should not treat decolonization as a metaphor for various ways to improve education, or for example, advancing social justice, adopting critical methodologies or implementing more student-centered pedagogies.
"Nevertheless, given the prevalence of the term, we should ask: What do the calls to decolonize the academy actually mean?
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