Professor Rajendra Chetty is the research chair in critical pedagogy at the University of the Western Cape. He is a postcolonial scholar with trans-disciplinary research interests drawn from critical theory and social activism. He has engaged extensively with decolonization and the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and inequality.
The webinar lecture was on the 29th of August 2024, from 14:00-15:30. On his lecture and in the discussion session, Professor Chetty, questioned our international partnerships with the Global South by asking us to discuss the tension on decolonization, Nordic exceptionalism, and the Finnish magic on education.
Chetty, further discussed the epistemic blindness of Western thoughts and the need to identify the blind spots of on our decolonizing process. He further emphasized that decolonization starts with us as individuals, investigating our history, raising critical issues, valuing knowledges developed through other epistemologies, being aware of what knowledge we are excluded, and on how to subvert curriculum.
Following the lecture, there was question and answer. Attendants appreciated the session and some of the issues raised by Professor Chetty will be discussed further in the group’s upcoming meetings.