Decolonial Pedagogies and Critical Intersectional Perspective: Contemporary Reflections

Jessica VISOTSKY-HASRUN; José REYES-SERNA

Jessica VISOTSKY-HASRUN Universidad Nacional del Sur
José REYES-SERNA Paris Sorbonne Nord

Keywords: adult education, intersectionality, inequality, decoloniality

Abstract

In this article, we share some reflections emanating from our educational practices and research in Latin America and France. We aim to contribute to the understanding of Freirean thought in its uniqueness regarding the decolonial perspective by highlighting the pioneering reflections on the links between education and coloniality in the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America. To this end, we revisit the Brazilian educator's reflections and his dialogues with the work of Frantz Fanon. We reflect on the contemporary context in which we inscribe our practices and the urgency of a decolonizing pedagogy. Finally, we contribute to reflections on a present-day movement in popular education, which has been challenged by the intersectional perspective, suggesting that we find ourselves in a context of a new refoundation of this movement.

Author Biographies

Jessica VISOTSKY-HASRUN, Universidad Nacional del Sur

Doctor in History. Postdoctoral researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences. Specialist in Educational Research. Licentiate in Educational Sciences. Professor of Education and Human Rights at the National University of the South, Argentina. She has directed research and university extension projects in education and human rights. She has taught postgraduate courses in Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States. Her publications focus on critical pedagogies, human rights, intersectionality, migrations, and participatory research. She accompanies social movements from the perspective of popular education and human rights. Editor-in-Chief of Revista nuestrAmérica.

José REYES-SERNA, Paris Sorbonne Nord

Doctor in Sociology from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France. Master in Social Sciences from EHESS, Paris. Sociologist from the University of Valle, Colombia. Member of the Laboratory of Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS—UMR 8238), France. Professor at Sorbonne Paris Nord, Sorbonne Letters, INSPE, and the University of Évry-Val-d'Essonne. His research focuses on migrations, gender, sexualities, socio-professional integration in France, emancipatory pedagogies, and territory from an intersectional perspective.

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