09-09-2020
08-09-2024
The Action DecolDEV takes on the challenge to reconstruct the concept and practice of development after its deconstruction. It aims for a resetting and diversification of the actors, structures, institutions and spaces in which knowledge about and for development is produced, shared, contested and put into practice. The Action will progress beyond the state-of-the-art through exploring and formulating alternatives in three areas: Research, Teaching and Practice. The action has three working groups. WG1 Decolonising Development Research The main objective of the Working Group is to counter epistemic asymmetries in knowledge production, the marginalization of non-mainstream non-hegemonic knowledges and to establish a view on European knowledges as a form of particular, ‘indigenous’, local and sustainable knowledge dismantling European knowledges particular claim to truth (Chakrabarty 2000). Therefore, it will explore alternative philosophies and concepts. WG 2 Decolonising Development Teaching The main objective of the Working Group 2 is to identify cross-cutting themes of a decolonial, post-developmental curriculum and pedagogy, based on discussions of various experimental pedagogical strategies, involving, but not limited to Global Citizenship Education, Education for Sustainable Development and Global Learning. WG 3 Decolonising Development Practice The main objective of the Working Group 3 is to counter colonial legacies in development cooperation, donorisation and financialisation, that prevent solidaristic, decolonial practices. Coordinator Julia SCHÖNEBERG, University Kassel (Germany)
PCEP - Participation, Communities and Political Education
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
Project No. Cost Action 19129
knowledge; critical development; decolonisation; Agenda 2030; development cooperation