16 Keita Takayama - Interrupting Global Economy of Academic Knowledge

For this episode, we are sharing Keita Takayama’s talk originally given during the Department of Educational Foundations’ Fall 2022 Colloquium speaker series. Keita is Professor/Director for the Global Education Office in the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. His research examines the globalization of educational policy and knowledge from a decolonial/postcolonial perspective. In this talk, Keita provides a critical self-reflection of the work he does as a co-editor of two international journals in education and the tensions and contradictions that arise in relation to his own scholarship.