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Nov 2020
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FreshEd #219 – Colonial Residues of Dome...

FreshEd with Will Brehm
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Today we look at some of the colonial legacies in discourses around girls’ education. With me are Chris Kirchgasler and Karishma Desai. They’ve recently published an article entitled, “’Girl’ in Crisis: Colonial Residues of Domesticity in Transnational School Reforms,” which was published in the Comparative Education Review. Chris Kirchgasler is an Assis ... Show More
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