NORRAG 154d ago

Together with the Laboratory for International Assessment Studies, Deakin University’s strategic research and innovation centre, the Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI), and the Deakin Science and Society Network, NORRAG is pleased to invite you to the Decolonising Data Summit. Crain Soudien, Professor Emeritus of Education and African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, began his keynote by introducing some ethical imperatives that regulate individual action, pointing to the need for community and accepting other knowledge systems. He then focused on the concept of knowledge dominance, explaining the processes that cause its legitimation and institutionalisation within societies. The result is an understanding of scientific knowledge as inherently linear, limiting the inclusion of alternative understandings that might challenge the status quo. He mentioned the rise of a normative value chain, which seemingly presents linear and neutral knowledge. However, this knowledge is deeply shaped by power and ideologies, regulating individual behavior and delegitimising alternative ways of thinking. More information: https://www.norrageducation.org/decolonizing-data-summit-04-04-2023/