ISCHE 45 - Natal
(De)coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education
18 – 21 August 2024, Natal, Brazil (in-person conference)
5 – 6 September 2025, online conference
Book of Abstract (available soon)
Keynote Speakers
Adriana Maria Paulo da Silva - "(De)coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education"
She has a degree (BA and BSc) in History from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1994), a Master's in Education from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1999) and a PhD in History from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2006). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), and a professor at the Postgraduate Programme in Education and the Profhistory program at UFPE. She leads the History of Education and Educability Practices in the Ibero-American World Research Group (GHEPEMI). She was coordinator and vice-coordinator of WG 02 (History of Education) of the National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPEd) between 2018 and 2021. She is a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee at UFPE. She is a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Body and an ad hoc member of the National Research Ethics Committee (CONEP). She coordinates the teaching training program for undergraduate degrees at UFPE. She has experience in researching the History of Education, with an emphasis on the 19th century and the History of the Brazilian Empire, and in teaching History for basic education. Her main areas of research and teaching include the social History of education, the social History of teaching labor, historiography, oral History, and history teaching. She has been involved in research ethics since 2006.
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Zandra Pedraza - In a Minor Key: Education for the Postcolonial Order in Latin America
Zandra Pedraza is a Colombian anthropologist and Full Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Her research interests focus on historical and pedagogical anthropology and the relationships among body, education, and modern subjectivities. She has studied biopolitics, childhood, and emotional education in Colombia and Latin America. She is currently doing research on emotional relationships and education between children and adults and on the teaching and learning of writing as a bodily activity.
Pierre Guidi - Addressing ambiguity: African educators confronted with colonization (1880s-1950s)
Pierre Guidi is a researcher at the Ceped (Université Paris Cité, IRD). His current research focus is on the history of women’s education and activism in Ethiopia. He is the author of the book Educating the Nation in Ethiopia, 1941-1991, Addis Ababa: AdéBooks, 2024. Guidi also co-edited (with Ellen Vea Rosnes and Jean-Luc Martineau) the book History through Narratives of Education in Africa, (Leiden: Brill, 2024) and (with Jean-Luc Martineau and Florence Wenzek) L’école en mutation. Politiques et dynamiques scolaires en Afrique (années 1940-1980) (Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi, 2024). He has been teaching the history of colonial education at Université Paris Cité and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne for the past 10 years.
