Being ‘Lazy’ and Slowing Down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 488-501

  Shahjahan, Riyad A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coloniality; embodied pedagogy; higher education; teaching and learning; temporal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926257725     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2014.880645     Document Type: Article

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