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Education Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions Create Crises of Pedagogy - Munyaradzi Hwami, 2022 (sagepub.com)
Article Information
Manuscript received: June 25, 2020
Revision received: July 17, 2020
Manuscript accepted: July 27, 2020
Published online: September 22, 2020
Issue published: September 2022
Author
Munyaradzi Hwami
Nazarbayev University
Abstract
Purpose: This article examines the adverse impact of international economic sanctions on pedagogy. The article considers the contemporary times as a period of misinformation, false news, and untruths. Utilizing anti-hegemonic literature, international economic sanctions are viewed as neoliberalism’s instrument of coercion, a Western weapon used to enforce Western values on those with different perceptions toward the free market system.
Design/Approach/Methods: This article utilizes critical scholarship to unmask authoritarian neoliberalism and a scoping review of sanctioned societies. Critical analytics are deployed to interpret and make sense of the dominant educational policy framework that appears to be against diversity.
Findings: Neoliberalism has caused a crisis in pedagogy. Education is under siege as academics and scientific evidence are being disregarded. The call is for pedagogues from all over the world to continue to avail evidence to power by practicing critical education. Literature is utilized to propose critical pedagogy when scientific evidence is disputed, and non-Western epistemologies are considered anachronous.
Originality/Value: Linking sanctions and neoliberalism is relatively novel, as is the contribution of the same lenses to authoritarian neoliberalism. The assault on divergent epistemologies is critical, and the defense of critical scholarship is every academic’s duty. The article joins conversations on the neoliberal assault on education and society.
Keywords
Authoritarian neoliberalism, crises of pedagogy, critical education, international economic sanction, post-truth era