Decolonizing Sustainable Development Education
Channel: SDSN
Date: 22/09/2021

Organized by global MDP faculty members and leaders from the University of Minnesota, USA; Regis University, USA; University of Pretoria, South Africa; and the MDP Secretariat, this group collaborated to develop a dialog on Decolonizing Sustainable Development Education, an ICSD side-event scheduled on September 22, 9:00 am to 10:30 am EST with an optional 30-minute question and answer portion at 10:30 to 11:00 am. Vanessa Andreotti from the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Colombia will offer the framing remarks at this session.

The panel of MDP faculty members at TERI University, India; Regis University, USA; and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with the possibility of one more from the University of Los Andes, Colombia, will explore the decolonization of development education and will offer examples of how MDP programs are addressing this imperative. Margarita Fontecha Tirado (MDP Alumni, University of Florida, USA) will serve as the moderator. This panel will consider how development education programs can effectively spark questions of colonial legacies in development, anti-racist and anti-sexist frameworks for development, alternative visions for development, and establishing equitable collaborations in local and international contexts. The MDP community welcomes the participation of anyone who is interested in this subject. 

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