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Degrees of becoming: Young women’s use of higher education as a symbolic resource in the making of selfhood

Transitions to adulthood are life-making projects—efforts to construct meaning and possibility even amid uncertainty.

Nana Akua Anyidoho Nana Akua Anyidoho

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Towards epistemic justice: Language, identity, and relations of knowing in postcolonial schools

This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority for historically marginalized speakers and knowers.

Caroline Kerfoot Caroline Kerfoot

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STIAS Series Volume 13: Race in Education

Race in Education Gerhard Maré (Editor) SUN PRESS (2019, 139pp) ISBN: 978-1-928480-14-3 https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928480150 For a prev...

Gerhard Mare Gerhard Mare

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Our Era’s Fear of Quality

Töllborg, Dennis. 2015. Our Era’s Fear of Quality. Stockholm: Books on Demand. http://www.bod.se/bok/9789175697642.html.

Dennis Töllborg Dennis Töllborg
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