George J Sefa Dei
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177479 |
|---|---|
| NOME | George J Sefa Dei |
| PRENOMES | George J Sefa |
| SOBRENOME | Dei |
| ASSINATURA | DEI G J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 282 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Actualizing decolonization
Calls to decolonize education systems cannot be removed from broader social struggles. Scholars have engaged in theoretical discussions on what decolonization entails, emphasizing the need for transforming thoughts, beliefs, and practices. However, the lack of sustained engagement and widespread resistance to decolonizing the curriculum remain evident, underscoring the urgency to envision new futures and explore relationalities between educators …
Coming to Know and Knowing Differently
Our paper will examine the question of counter-hegemonic knowledge production in the Western academy and the responsibilities of the Racialized scholar coming to know and producing knowing to challenge the particularity of Western science knowledge that masquerades as universal knowledge in academia. We engage the topic from a stance examining the coloniality of knowledge in educational leadership by centering Indigenous knowledge systems in the …
Commentary on Inter-Epistemic Dialogues with Decolonial Thought from Latin America and the Caribbean
Elders' Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education
The Economics of Death and Funeral Celebration in a Ghanaian Akan Community
This study examines the economic aspects of death and funeral celebration in the Akan town of Ayirebi, near Akyem Oda, in southeastem Ghana. It illustrates the extent of social responsibility that exists in a contemporary stratified society that has a mixed form of property holding. It shows how a traditional institution functions as an effective response to socioeconomic stress, alleviating the hardships of the poorer segments of the population …
Elders' Cultural Knowledge and the Question of Black/African Indigeneity
Black Like Me”
From a particular vantage point, as an African-born scholar with a politics to affirm my Black subjectivity and Indigeneity in a diasporic context, my article engages a (re)theorization of Blackness for decolonial politics. Building on existing works of how Black scholars, themselves, have theorized Blackness, and recognizing the fluid, intersecting, and contested nature of this concept, I engage a multidimensional reading of Blackness, in part a…
Anti‐Racism
This entry explains anti‐racism and its key principles, highlighting the links between race and racism, and social difference (gender, class, sexuality, disability, etc.). Race and racism are intertwined, in that it is race that makes racism real, and the reality of racism lies in its powerful social, material, and political effects, consequences, and manifestations. The anti‐racist struggle attempts to challenge and subvert White power, privileg…
Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms
Schooling and Difference in Africa
Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis
Un panorama histórico de la aplicación del concepto de raza en la práctica social
Traducción del artículo "An Historical Overview of the Applicaction of the Race Concept in Social Practice". En: Agnes Calliste y George J. Sefa Dei, eds. Anti-racist Feminism. Critical Race and Gender Studies. Canada: Fernwood, 2000.Traducción por Gabriela Castellanos, autorizada por Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Canadá
Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning
The African Scholar in the Western Academy
In this essay, I push the discursive envelope on what it means to speak of a particular space, location, and position of the “Black Scholar” in the (Western) academy and its colonial satellites globally. The Black Scholar is not about racializing the identity of Blackness (or Black subject as simply an intellectual of Black identity) nor a pursuit for “an essential Black subject.” Rather, it is about an appreciation of the interface of critical (…
Politics of Anti-Racism Education
“Suahunu,” the Trialectic Space
This article discusses the concept of “suahunu” as the “trialectic space” and highlights its key principles and ideas as part of the project of pioneering new analytical systems for understanding Indigenous communities. The concept is borrowed from the lexicon of the Akan people of Ghana, with the embedded meaning that if one is seriously about learning, one will come to know and acquire knowledge and act responsibly. The article also raises less…
Fanon and the Counterinsurgency of Education
Teaching Africa
Teaching africa
Reclaiming “Development” Through Indigenity and Indigenous Knowledge
Fanon, Anti-Colonialism and Education
Examination of Traditional Medicine and Herbal Pharmacology and the Implications for Teaching and Education
This article presents the preliminary findings of a pilot study of the practice, uses, and effectiveness of traditional medicine in Ghana. Based on in-depth interviews with local key practitioners and users of traditional medicine, the article points to some of the educational significance of local cultural knowledge on the environment and the relevance of such knowledge for science education in Ghana. In the discussion the authors briefly highli…
Afterword
Racists Beware
With admirable clarity and directness, George Dei exposes the tendency towards the racial re-feudalization of the contemporary public sphere in Canada and, by association, other post-industrial societies. He points to the enormous opportunity costs imposed on racial minorities in the new millennium as a consequence. In RACISTS BEWARE: UNCOVERING RACIAL POLITICS IN THE POSTMODERN SOCIETY, Dei identifies and subjects to close scrutiny the new race-…
Refl ections on “African Development”
Rethinking the role of Indigenous knowledges in the academy
This paper is an invitation critically to engage in the discussion of 'Indigenous knowledges' and the implication for academic decolonization. Among the issues raised are questions of the definition and operationalization of Indigenous knowledges and the challenges of pursuing such knowledge in the Western academy. The paper draws attention to some of the nuances, contradictions and contestations in affirming the place of Indigenous knowledges in…
Black Like Me”
From a particular vantage point, as an African-born scholar with a politics to affirm my Black subjectivity and Indigeneity in a diasporic context, my article engages a (re)theorization of Blackness for decolonial politics. Building on existing works of how Black scholars, themselves, have theorized Blackness, and recognizing the fluid, intersecting, and contested nature of this concept, I engage a multidimensional reading of Blackness, in part a…
Indigenous Knowledge Studies and the Next Generation
This paper raises issues pertaining to our collective responsibilities in nurturing the next generation of Indigenous scholars. It highlights aspects of current theorising of Indigenity, namely, the search for "epistemological equity" through reclamation of identity, knowledge and politics of embodiment; and discusses how knowledge about our own existence, realities and identities can help produce a form of knowing legitimate in its own right and…
The Role of Afrocentricity in the Inclusive Curriculum in Canadian Schools
Developing an "inclusive curriculum" that highlights Afrocentric knowledge will be a difficult task in Canadian schools. Nevertheless, the educational stories and experiences of Black/African-Canadian high school students demonstrate the need for a very different approach to both curricular offerings and pedagogic practices. Afrocentric knowledge not only is important for the intellectual and social growth of such students, but plays a part in th…
The Denial of Difference
This article makes a case for the ‘strategic essentialism’ of anti‐racist practice. It reconceptualises anti‐racism by examining the intersections of race and social difference. The article begins with an interrogation of the processes and/or strategies of denying of race in academic discourses and public social practices, and the resistant politics that affirm race and difference. It discusses how in the context of racialised experience(s) (e.g.…
The challenge of inclusive schooling in Africa
This paper explores how African learners and educators work with difference and diversity in schooling populations. Using a Ghanaian case study the paper offers lessons on/about how local discourses relating to ‘inclusivity and nation building’, ‘minority’ and ‘difference’ can inform debates about educational change and guide broad policy initiatives in pluralistic settings. While difference is affirmed, in some circles it can be said Ghanaian ed…
Becoming Black’
To move beyond the ‘intellectualisation of transformative social practice’, we as researchers, community activists, etc. need to conduct thorough examinations of discursive practices, employ self‐reflective analyses, and gain an understanding of the power differentials among stakeholders within the Euro‐American/Canadian context. One method of analysis employs ‘black perspectivism’, which means understanding the school system from the multiple in…
Learning Culture, Spirituality and Local Knowledge
Critical Perspectives in Antiracism
Ce numéro spécial de la RCSA est consacré aux nouvelles façons d'aborder la lutte antiraciste dans des contextes multiraciaux. Les auteurs examinent les pratiques antiracistes selon des points de vue différents qui parfois se chevauchent, et tracent les grandes lignes de la pratique antiraciste, tout particullièrement en ce qui concerne la pédagogie et les ateliers antiracistes. Ils apportent leur contribution à létude de l'antiracisme critique e…
Crisis and Adaptation in a Ghanaian Forest Community
This article examines the allocation, procurement, and use of economic resources and other productive means in a Ghanaian rural community to solve problems resulting from socioenvironmental stress and economic deprivation. There is a general beliefthat during times of economic crisis in Third World societies, village adaptation tends to be negatively affected and that conditions in rural areas will even be worse than in the urban centres of the a…
Social difference and the politics of schooling in Africa
This paper examines the implications of ‘social difference’ for schooling in African contexts. It highlights theoretical and philosophical engagements with ‘difference’ that could help explore and search for viable educational options in Africa. The paper engages voices of university students interviewed in a longitudinal ethnographic research study on schooling done in Ghana. Issues and questions about knowledge production, identity development …
The Women of a Ghanaian Village
An important feature of African village economies in the 1980s and 1990s has been the initiatives of local people in responding to the severe contraction in national economies and the structural changes introduced as part of the World Bank/IMF-inspired structural adjustment programs (SAPs) (Elabor-Idemudia 1993; Gladwin 1991; Taylor and MacKenzie 1992). This paper discusses the ongoing strategies of the women of a Ghanaian village to fluctuations…
Actualizing decolonization
Calls to decolonize education systems cannot be removed from broader social struggles. Scholars have engaged in theoretical discussions on what decolonization entails, emphasizing the need for transforming thoughts, beliefs, and practices. However, the lack of sustained engagement and widespread resistance to decolonizing the curriculum remain evident, underscoring the urgency to envision new futures and explore relationalities between educators …
Knowledge and Politics of Social Change
This article is a reflection on educational change in Euro-American contexts, undertaken as I conclude two extensive empirical studies on minority student disengagement and strategies of inclusive schooling in the Ontario public education system. Specifically, the discussion explores the implications of race, difference and power for schooling and educational change in North America. It is argued that contemporary education needs to take into acc…
The Aesthetics of Action
A Ghanaian Town Revisited
Journal Article A GHANAIAN TOWN REVISITED: CHANGES AND CONTINUITIES IN LOCAL ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES Get access GEORGE J. S. DEI GEORGE J. S. DEI George Dei is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. This article is based on field-work undertaken in Ghana most recently in 1989. He would like to thank his colleagues in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wind…
Race and the Production of Identity in the Schooling Experiences of African-Canadian Youth
(1997). Race and the Production of Identity in the Schooling Experiences of African‐Canadian Youth. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 241-257
The Renewal of a Ghanaian Rural Economy
Cet article examine les processus de renouvellement socioéconomique dans une communauté ghanéenne rurale, àla suite de changements au sein de l'économie nationale au début des années 1990. L'argument portant sur la manière dont les changements affectent les stratégies économiques rurales contemporaires, se concentre sur les processus locaux de restructuration sociale et économique qui ont accompagné le nouveau rôle de l'Etat dans l'économie domes…
Africanizing Knowledge
Commentary on Inter-Epistemic Dialogues with Decolonial Thought from Latin America and the Caribbean
Elders' Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education
The Economics of Death and Funeral Celebration in a Ghanaian Akan Community
This study examines the economic aspects of death and funeral celebration in the Akan town of Ayirebi, near Akyem Oda, in southeastem Ghana. It illustrates the extent of social responsibility that exists in a contemporary stratified society that has a mixed form of property holding. It shows how a traditional institution functions as an effective response to socioeconomic stress, alleviating the hardships of the poorer segments of the population …
Crisis and Adaptation in a Ghanaian Forest Community
This article examines the allocation, procurement, and use of economic resources and other productive means in a Ghanaian rural community to solve problems resulting from socioenvironmental stress and economic deprivation. There is a general beliefthat during times of economic crisis in Third World societies, village adaptation tends to be negatively affected and that conditions in rural areas will even be worse than in the urban centres of the a…
Hunting and gathering in a Ghanaian rain forest community
This paper examines the nature, contribution, and impact of the exploitation of forest resources on a rural food farming economy in Ghana. Hunting and gathering of food resources is shown to be an adaptive response to seasonal food supply cycles in the local community of Ayirebi, near Akyem Oda in southeastern Ghana. The implications of this study for national development planning are explored
Indigenous knowledge and economic production
This paper examines specific cultivation, preservation and storage techniques for some selected staple crops in the food farming community of Ayirebi, near Akyem Oda, in southeastern Ghana. The traditional subsistence methods of Ayirebi farming households are well adapted to the social and geographical environments of the region. The long‐term future of developing African communities may well lie in building up thriving rural communities producin…
The dietary habits of a Ghanaian farming community
This case study examines the specific techniques associated with household food processing and meal preparation, and the consumption patterns of the food farming people of Ayirebi, near Akyem Oda in southeastern Ghana. Changes and continuities in household dietary patterns are noted. Such micro level ethnographic studies of food processing and consumption are relevant for effective policy recommendations on development planning, particularly in l…
A forest beyond the trees
A Ghanaian Town Revisited
Journal Article A GHANAIAN TOWN REVISITED: CHANGES AND CONTINUITIES IN LOCAL ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES Get access GEORGE J. S. DEI GEORGE J. S. DEI George Dei is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. This article is based on field-work undertaken in Ghana most recently in 1989. He would like to thank his colleagues in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wind…
The Renewal of a Ghanaian Rural Economy
Cet article examine les processus de renouvellement socioéconomique dans une communauté ghanéenne rurale, àla suite de changements au sein de l'économie nationale au début des années 1990. L'argument portant sur la manière dont les changements affectent les stratégies économiques rurales contemporaires, se concentre sur les processus locaux de restructuration sociale et économique qui ont accompagné le nouveau rôle de l'Etat dans l'économie domes…
Indigenous African Knowledge Systems
The Women of a Ghanaian Village
An important feature of African village economies in the 1980s and 1990s has been the initiatives of local people in responding to the severe contraction in national economies and the structural changes introduced as part of the World Bank/IMF-inspired structural adjustment programs (SAPs) (Elabor-Idemudia 1993; Gladwin 1991; Taylor and MacKenzie 1992). This paper discusses the ongoing strategies of the women of a Ghanaian village to fluctuations…
African Studies in Canada
The Aesthetics of Action
Critical Perspectives in Antiracism
Ce numéro spécial de la RCSA est consacré aux nouvelles façons d'aborder la lutte antiraciste dans des contextes multiraciaux. Les auteurs examinent les pratiques antiracistes selon des points de vue différents qui parfois se chevauchent, et tracent les grandes lignes de la pratique antiraciste, tout particullièrement en ce qui concerne la pédagogie et les ateliers antiracistes. Ils apportent leur contribution à létude de l'antiracisme critique e…
The Role of Afrocentricity in the Inclusive Curriculum in Canadian Schools
Developing an "inclusive curriculum" that highlights Afrocentric knowledge will be a difficult task in Canadian schools. Nevertheless, the educational stories and experiences of Black/African-Canadian high school students demonstrate the need for a very different approach to both curricular offerings and pedagogic practices. Afrocentric knowledge not only is important for the intellectual and social growth of such students, but plays a part in th…
Reconstructing 'Dropout'
Technology and Enterprise Development
Technology is one of the primary determinants of the competitiveness of manufacturing firms. Since practically all the technologies in use are imported from the developed countries and their application is known and understood, it is widely believed that developing country firms need to invest little on their own in technological effort. This book is the first detailed attempt to assess technological capabilities in an African country. It is a st…
Race and the Production of Identity in the Schooling Experiences of African-Canadian Youth
(1997). Race and the Production of Identity in the Schooling Experiences of African‐Canadian Youth. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 241-257
Interrogating "African Development" and the Diasporan Reality
The obituary has been written if not already read (see also Sachs, 1992). The valorization of international development is today justifiably replaced with the pillorization of socalled development. In fact, it does not require any great sense of intellectual imagination to accede that international development as we' have all come to know and understand has met with disappointment in Africa. Today, the euphoria of international development has wo…
Becoming Black’
To move beyond the ‘intellectualisation of transformative social practice’, we as researchers, community activists, etc. need to conduct thorough examinations of discursive practices, employ self‐reflective analyses, and gain an understanding of the power differentials among stakeholders within the Euro‐American/Canadian context. One method of analysis employs ‘black perspectivism’, which means understanding the school system from the multiple in…
Education for Development
This theoretical paper discusses the challenges of promoting genuine educational reforms and options in Africa. The author presents a discursive critique of the conventional processes for the delivery of education in calling for a re-examination of the fundamental ways in which the structures for teaching, learning and administration of education can serve the needs of local people and communities. Part of the problem of African development is th…
The Denial of Difference
This article makes a case for the ‘strategic essentialism’ of anti‐racist practice. It reconceptualises anti‐racism by examining the intersections of race and social difference. The article begins with an interrogation of the processes and/or strategies of denying of race in academic discourses and public social practices, and the resistant politics that affirm race and difference. It discusses how in the context of racialised experience(s) (e.g.…
Knowledge and Politics of Social Change
This article is a reflection on educational change in Euro-American contexts, undertaken as I conclude two extensive empirical studies on minority student disengagement and strategies of inclusive schooling in the Ontario public education system. Specifically, the discussion explores the implications of race, difference and power for schooling and educational change in North America. It is argued that contemporary education needs to take into acc…
School Reforms in Ontario
Market dynamics have begun to entrench themselves in educational systems around the world. Although this phenomenon has been addressed in several recent writings (Ball, 1993; Dehli, 1996; Gerwitz, Ball, & Bowe, 1995; Kenway, 1993; Robertson, 1995), few have incorporated a critical antiracist framework. As noted by Dehli (1996) the encroachment of market forms, relations, and concepts into educational sites usually results in the marginalization a…
Rethinking the role of Indigenous knowledges in the academy
This paper is an invitation critically to engage in the discussion of 'Indigenous knowledges' and the implication for academic decolonization. Among the issues raised are questions of the definition and operationalization of Indigenous knowledges and the challenges of pursuing such knowledge in the Western academy. The paper draws attention to some of the nuances, contradictions and contestations in affirming the place of Indigenous knowledges in…
Spirituality in African Education
This article explores Ghanaian educators' and students' understandings of spirituality and its role and implications in education. Using a Ghanaian case study of two selected school sites, the article addresses local conceptions and responses to educational reform initiatives and the specific implications of spirituality and values in education. In particular, the article examines how students and teachers employ local meanings of self, personhoo…
Racialized Politics
Are Americans less prejudiced now than they were in the 1970s, or has racism simply gone underground? Is racism something that is learned as children, or is it a result of certain social groups striving to maintain their privileged positions in society? In this text, political scientists, sociologists and psychologists explore the late-1990s debate surrounding the sources of racism in America. The essays represent three major approaches to the to…
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