Insufficient and inadequate democracy? Exploring coloniality and possibilities for the teaching of slavery in Europe

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ID7759506
AuthorsMarta da Costa (0000-0001-8083-2787, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Yvonne Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan University), Karen Pashby (0000-0002-9967-8262, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Year2025
Volume57
Issue6
Pages552-562
Publication date2025-05-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131857.2024.2333848
OpenAlexW4393255289
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited30

In the context of calls to decolonise education in European contexts, this paper draws on coloniality-based critiques of Eurocentric modernity to take up the links between democracy, slavery, and colonialism in education.Starting from the position that modernity requires epistemological support to sustain racism and white supremacy in European democracies, we read coloniality-based critiques of democracy with empirical literature about the teaching of slavery.We consider possibilities for revised critical engagements with democracy and with the history of European colonialism and slavery.The paper builds on and contributes to recent decolonial critiques of democracy in education by explicitly engaging a tension raised around the possibility of disentangling democracy from its colonial roots

Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Teaching method · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy

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