- Title
- Economic Literacy Otherwise: A Critical Reflection on Educating for Earth-Centred, Caring Economies in a Migrant-Settler Colony
- Creator
- Thapliyal, Nisha
- Relation
- Policy & Practice : A Development Education Review Vol. 35, Issue Autumn, p. 14-33
- Relation
- https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-35/economic-literacy-otherwise-critical-reflection-educating-earth-centred-caring
- Publisher
- Centre for Global Education
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Education systems and practices shaped by a colonial global imaginary played a central role in the settler colonial project and continue to be complicit in contemporary national and regional processes of expropriation, exploitation and hyper-consumption. How do we unlearn dominant economic logics of migrant settler colonialism and neoliberal development? How do we explicate the linkages between nature, economy and culture? How do we cultivate alternative relational rather than exploitative economic imaginaries and practices? This article presents a critical reflection on the pedagogical possibilities and complexities of interrupting hegemonic economic logics in development education in an Australian teacher education setting. In framing the article around the notion of Economic Literacy Otherwise, it takes direct inspiration from the work of the Decolonial Futures Collective (DCF) which is premised on Indigenous conceptions of care, earth-centeredness, social justice and solidarity. Specifically, I discuss selected pedagogical strategies that are responsive to two salient identities and subjectivities: 1) being teachers and 2) earthcare-centred sustainable livelihoods and living. This analysis identifies fruitful openings for decoding dominant economic logics of development as well as cultivating alternative economic and citizen imaginaries and practices.
- Subject
- development education; Australia; decolonial; Indigenous economies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1481370
- Identifier
- uon:50709
- Identifier
- ISSN:1748-135X
- Language
- eng
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