Decolonizing and Co-imagining Higher Education

Collaborators: Matias G. Flores, Carolina Osorio Gil

An interdisciplinary and diverse group of scholars involved in collaborative research and learning on topics that include:

  • Critical Pedagogies
  • University Extension
  • Participatory Action Research (PAR)
  • and more

There will be an opportunity to develop and international conference or collaborative book in year 2. 

For more information, contact: Matias G. Flores (mf785 [at] cornell.edu (mf785[at]cornell[dot]edu)) or Carolina Osorio Gil (carolina [at] cornell.edu (carolina[at]cornell[dot]edu)

Foreign Development Theories Introduction and Domestication in China

Collaborators: Mengzheng YaoZhuang Han, and Jack Zinda

Until recent years, China has long been perceived as monolithic by media, governments and even academia from the global north. In this RWG, we believe China shouldn’t be understood as an administratively isolated state for most of its history. Instead, the country has deep connections to the world. On one hand, it absorbs and tests theoretical thinking and empirical practices from the whole world to implement its domestic revolutions and reforms. On the other hand, Chinese scholars and reformers generate new theories and practices which create impacts on the global south and the global north altogether. Such exchanges in thinking and practices are what this RWG wants to explore more. We are interested in investigating how thoughts from the world land and blossom in China and how new ideas and practices created in China impact the rest of the world later. Our goal is to discuss China as globally involved and to establish a family lineage tree for different theories in this process.