On Teaching Sociology ‘Decolonially’ in Singapore
Notes on Possibilities and Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10757828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Kassem (0000-0001-6527-2304, National University of Singapore, Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1143-1149 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380385251359082 |
| OpenAlex | W4412883796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article explores the possibilities and challenges of teaching sociology ‘decolonially’ at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Drawing on the classroom as a site of knowledge, it highlights how students’ diverse lived experiences and epistemic positionalities facilitate the deconstruction of foundational Eurocentric categories including race, religion and modernity. However, hierarchical learning models, competitive educational structures and reductive circulations of categories such as ‘Asian values’ pose significant barriers to decolonial pedagogy. NUS classrooms accordingly offer promising ground for pluriversal dialogue and critical engagement that nonetheless necessitates unlearning and undoing various complex and entwined constraints to foster liberatory alternatives otherwise
Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Anthropology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |