Toward decoloniality of connectedness in higher education
本文提出“联结的非殖民性”概念，分析高等教育中师生、研究者与被研究者、知识与认知者之间的殖民断裂，并基于五项原则想象非殖民化的高等教育。
Current decolonial efforts in universities have been argued to be superficial, without challenging the deeper structures of coloniality. This paper proposes the concept of decoloniality of connectedness as a critical framework for decolonial praxis, with a particular application to higher education. We argue that focusing on connectedness can help to improve decolonial analysis by examining various relations that have been purposefully severed in order to conceive of, establish and manage coloniality. To demonstrate this, we analyse higher education through the lens of what we refer to as the colonial disconnect, noting a divide between staff and students, researchers and researched, and knowledge and knowers. We use the methodology of decolonial dreaming to imagine higher education that redresses colonial legacies, based on five principles: (1) connectedness, (2) fostering horizontal relationships, (3) radical re-humanisation, (4) parity of non-Western epistemologies, and (5) political nature of knowledge. The paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how coloniality operates in higher education and how focussing on connectedness can improve the decolonial praxis.