Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility

Prachi Srivastava | pp. 86-91

Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest global disruption of schooling in recent history, resulting in immediate and cumulative ruptures. This commentary proposes a collective, conscious, and critical re-examination of education and education systems with a view to harnessing the promise of possibility. This exercise rests on questioning which and whose knowledges have been legitimised and valued, what has been counted as evidence, and what has been discounted or marginalised. The onus of conducting a critical re-examination rests with individuals and institutions that have been privileged.

Keywords: Education disruption, marginalisation, education systems, knowledge systems, cognitive justice