Deconstructing Whiteness in Higher Education: Epistemological Imperialism in Japanese International Baccalaureate Teacher Training Programs

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Deconstructing Whiteness in Higher Education: Epistemological Imperialism in Japanese International Baccalaureate Teacher Training Programs

A myriad of higher education (HE) initiatives donning ‘international’ and ‘global’ branding remain unwittingly soaked in epistemologies of whiteness. The emergence of International Baccalaureate Educator Certificate (IBEC) programs strengthens this trend. Reviewing newly published findings that linguistically and pedagogically evidence this force at work inside Japanese universities, I suggest pathways for HE to better decloak, and subsequently deconstruct unwanted vestiges of whiteness.

Date: 21 January 2025, 14:00
Venue: Zoom, online
Speaker: Akira Shah (University of Oxford and SOAS University of London)
Organiser: David Mills (University of Oxford)
Host: David Mills (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.researchcghe.org/events/deconstructing-whiteness-in-higher-education-epistemological-imperialism-in-japanese-international-baccalaureate-teacher-training-programs/
Cost: FREE
Audience: Public
Editors: David Mills, Kristina Khoo