Dr Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro is a Rwandese-Irish early career researcher who holds an PhD in English from the University of Limerick, Ireland. Sandrine’s PhD research examines how contemporary African texts (self-referential, fictional, filmic, and photographic) addressing environmental catastrophe produce narratives of livingness that re-works the necropolitical governances of objectification of a death sentence in the current terminal time of the Anthropocene. She was the recipient of a prestigious Irish Research Council postgraduate scholarship 2022-2023. She is also the founder and co-editor in chief of Unapologetic magazine, a multidisciplinary, literary, cultural, and artistic response to the social issues and creative opportunities in contemporary Ireland. Sandrine has published various works on race, identity, and the Anthropocene. She has also published book chapters on the topic of Black Irish culture, and Black environmentalism.
2025 Research Showcase: Pathways to Decolonial Practices in Global Citizenship Education
Date: Thursday 20 November, 10.00 - 11.30am
Location: Online
IDEA is thrilled to invite you to our 2025 Research Showcase, "Pathways to decolonial practices in Global Citizenship Education” on Thursday, 20 November, 10.00 - 11.30am, online. This year’s theme is inspired by Principle 3 of the CODE of Good Practice for Development Education, “Be explicit about the ethos of Development Education – global solidarity, empathy and partnership, and challenging unequal power relations across all issues we work on.” This has always been a central element of quality Global Citizenship Education and the practice of IDEA members.
Challenging unequal power relations across all issues is something we all strive for in Global Citizenship Education, but how can we embed this Principle even further in our educational practice? This year’s Showcase will be an opportunity to dig deeper into our engagement with communities affected by injustice.
Speakers include Dr Tanya Wendt Samu, a senior lecturer in the School of Critical Studies in Education, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Auckland, and Dr Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro, who has published extensively on race, identity, and the Anthropocene.
The speakers will share their expertise on pathways to shift the balance of power differentials in our practice, as well as related risks and opportunities. We will discuss the importance of indigenous knowledge and decolonial theoretical frameworks and explore what these look like in practice. We hope to equip participants with tools for meaningful representation and help them reflect on their own positionality.
The showcase is also an opportunity to explore current Global Citizenship Education research, meet academics and explore the applicability of the research to your own practice.
More information about speakers to come soon!
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Biographies
Dr Tanya Wendt Samu is a senior lecturer, School of Critical Studies in Education, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Auckland. She has three decades of experience in teacher education, social studies and social sciences curriculum development and research. An area of expertise is Pacific/Pasifika education. She recently worked on a APCEIU project involving a process that privileged the perspectives and knowledges of diverse cultures and philosophical traditions including indigenous. She sought to develop a framework informed by Pacific ways of knowing, being, and doing within which to locate and connect global education and learning contextualised for the realities of a sub-region covering one-third of the planet’s surface: the Pacific / Oceania / the Moana / the Blue Continent.
