Coordinators:
\n<\/b>Meri Mononen-Mat\u00edas (University of Helsinki)
\nGabriel Cruz Ignacio (Teacher\/Researcher, Oaxaca, Mexico; online coordinator)
\nKarolina Lehtola (University of Helsinki)<\/p>\n
Description:<\/strong> We understand educational sovereignty as the right and practice of people and communities to decide what is learned<\/span>, <\/span>how<\/span>, <\/span>by whom<\/span>, <\/span>and in relation to which territories<\/span>. <\/span>Indigenous peoples<\/span>, <\/span>peasant movements<\/span>, <\/span>grassroots teachers and popular educators in both the Global South and North are building such sovereignty from below. <\/span>They often work in tension with state curricula, standardized metrics, and increasingly with platform-based and <\/span>Al-driven education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We invite contributions on:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We particularly welcome contributions from Indigenous scholars, community educators, movement-based <\/span>researchers<\/span>, <\/span>colleagues from the Global South<\/span>, <\/span>and early-career researchers<\/span>. <\/span>Alongside paper presentations<\/span>, <\/span>we will use roundtable and participatory workshop formats that create space for dialogue rather than one-way\u00a0<\/span>transmission.<\/span><\/p>\n Type of call: Participation mode:\u00a0<\/strong> Submission details:<\/strong> Funding note:<\/strong><\/p>\n Contacts:\u00a0<\/strong> Coordinators: Meri Mononen-Mat\u00edas (University of Helsinki) Gabriel Cruz Ignacio (Teacher\/Researcher, Oaxaca, Mexico; online coordinator) Karolina Lehtola (University of Helsinki) Description: This working group continues the dialogue begun in Working Group 5, “Pedagogy of Resistance,” at DevDays2026. There, scholars and practitioners from seven countries across four continents identified epistemic and pedagogic sovereignty as a shared horizon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":3437,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5061\/revisions\/5135"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis working group continues the dialogue begun in Working Group 5<\/span>, <\/span>“Pedagogy of Resistance<\/span>,<\/span>” at DevDays2026<\/span>. <\/span>There, scholars and practitioners from seven countries across four continents identified epistemic and pedagogic sovereignty as a shared horizon of struggle. DevDays2027 calls for empowerment as collective power to transform <\/span>structures rather than as individualized capacity-building<\/span>. <\/span>Education is where this distinction is most visible<\/span>. <\/span>The <\/span>same classroom can train <\/span>“<\/span>human capital<\/span>” <\/span>for extractive economies, or it can sustain communities<\/span>‘ <\/span>capacity to <\/span>define their own knowledges, languages and futures.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Call for Papers and Participation<\/p>\n
\nHybrid session combining paper presentations, roundtable discussions, and participatory workshop <\/span>activities<\/span>. <\/span>Particular attention will be given to enabling meaningful online participation by colleagues from the <\/span>Global South.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSelected contributions will be invited to develop their work for a planned journal special issue<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMeri Mononen-Mat\u00edas<\/span>, meri.mononen@helsinki.fi<\/em><\/a>
\n<\/span>Gabriel Cruz Ignacio<\/span>, <\/span>GAELTH7@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"