Spring 2025
International comparative education
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Josephine Gabi (She/Her/Hers) is a Reader in the School of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University. Grounded in Black feminist thought and antiracist praxis, she is dedicated to challenging disembodied pedagogy in early years education and care and undoing forms of coloniality in curricula and relational encounters. Josephine embraces solidarity as a tool of resistance to the matrix of domination as a critical orientation towards liberated futures. Her work advances co-creation as a liberatory pedagogy that facilitates relational agency. Josephine is a chair of the UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT) Equity & Inclusion special interest group, Senior Advisor of UKAT and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). She is the co-editor of Who Are You Without Colonialism? Pedagogies of Liberation (Information Age Publishing, October 2023).
International comparative education
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