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Edwards, Kirsten T.; Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
A concerted attempt to offer a temporal lens (the way we make sense of and relate to time changes) underlying decolonizing pedagogy and curriculum (DCP) remains absent. Drawing on student resistance as an entry point, we offer a temporal account of DCP by unearthing the entanglements between past, present, and future underlying DCP enactments. We…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Policy, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Wagner, Anne E. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
Despite the growing debate about scholarly impact, an analysis of the onto-epistemic grammar underlying impact has remained absent. By taking a different analytical approach to examining impact, we interrogate the concept through the lens of decolonial thought. We offer an empathetic review of the impact scholarship and illuminate the limits of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Empathy, Scholarship, Criticism
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Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
While other scholars have analyzed the way that international organizations (IOs) in higher education policy may contribute to neocolonial domination, this paper illuminates not only on "how" IOs' epistemic activities promulgate one-size fit all solutions, but centers the colonial structures of knowledge/power that inform the…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Epistemology, Educational Policy, Technical Assistance
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Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
Various scholars have suggested ways to resist neoliberal conditions in higher education (HE). In analysing current neoliberal policies and practices in HE, I suggest that postcolonial theories of resistance can enhance our ability as faculty and administrators to understand and "resist" these policies and practices. In this article, I…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Educational Policy
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Morgan, Clara – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
While scholars have analyzed global higher education (HE) competition, they have largely failed to address how global spaces of equivalence are tied both to coloniality and to competition. Using the OECD's International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) as a case study and drawing on concepts from coloniality including…
Descriptors: Competition, International Education, Outcomes of Education, Political Influences
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Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is currently engaging in a worldwide feasibility study entitled International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO). This feasibility study seeks to develop measures that would assess student learning outcomes that would be valid across different languages,…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, International Programs, Comparative Testing, Educational Policy