Ali A. Abdi
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- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
- Masters Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ali A. Abdi is a Somali-Canadian sociologist and educationist. Currently, he is a professor of social development education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he previously served as head of department. Before that, he was a professor of International Education and International Development at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he also served as the founding co-director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research . He is past president of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada . In addition, he is the founding editor/co-editor of the peer-reviewed online publications Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education and Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.
Ali A. Abdi's Published Works
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- The Criminalization of the State in Africa (1999) (786)
- Education and the Politics of Difference: Canadian Perspectives (2004) (108)
- Education in Somalia: history, destruction, and calls for reconstruction (1998) (101)
- Educating for human rights and global citizenship (2008) (80)
- Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2001) (66)
- Decolonizing Philosophies of Education (2011) (58)
- Issues in African education : sociological perspectives (2005) (54)
- Social norms and beliefs about gender based violence scale: a measure for use with gender based violence prevention programs in low-resource and humanitarian settings (2019) (49)
- African Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives (2006) (48)
- Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education (2015) (41)
- Democratic Schools: Lessons in Powerful Education edited by Michael Apple and James A. Beane (2007) (37)
- Lifetime prevalence, correlates and health consequences of gender-based violence victimisation and perpetration among men and women in Somalia (2018) (35)
- Issues in African Education (2005) (28)
- Apartheid and Education in South Africa: Select Historical Analyses (2003) (27)
- Identity Formations and Deformations in South Africa (1999) (24)
- Indigenous discourses on knowledge and development in Africa (2014) (23)
- Critical Perspectives on International Education (2013) (23)
- African Philosophies of Education: Counter-Colonial Criticisms (2005) (21)
- Democratic Development and the Role of Citizenship Education in Sub-Saharan Africa with a Case Focus on Zambia. (2005) (20)
- ORAL SOCIETIES AND COLONIAL EXPERIENCES: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE De Facto POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD (2007) (20)
- Education and the politics of difference : select Canadian perspectives (2013) (20)
- Eurocentric Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Counter-Hegemonic Analyses and Responses. (2006) (19)
- Integrated Education and Black Development in Post-apartheid South Africa: Critical analyses (2001) (19)
- Sociology of Education: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives (2005) (18)
- :Reimagining Civic Education: How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens (2009) (16)
- Global Multiculturalism: Africa and the Recasting of the Philosophical and Epistemological Plateaus (2007) (16)
- 2. Engaging the Multiple Discourses of Global Citizenship Education within a Canadian University: Deliberation, Contestation, and Social Justice Possibilities Lynette Shultz 13 (2011) (15)
- The dialectics of African education and western discourses : counter-hegemonic perspectives (2012) (15)
- Decolonizing Global Citizenship (2015) (15)
- Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship An Introduction (2008) (14)
- EUROPE AND AFRICAN THOUGHT SYSTEMS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF EDUCATION (2008) (14)
- Global perspectives on adult education (2009) (14)
- Democratic Development and Prospects for Citizenship Education: Theoretical Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) (13)
- Decolonizing Educational and Social Development Platforms in Africa (2013) (12)
- Identity in the Philosophies of Dewey and Freire: Select Analyses. (2001) (12)
- Education and Social Development: Global Issues and Analyses (2008) (12)
- Citizenship education and social development in Zambia (2010) (11)
- Continuities of racism and inclusive citizenship: Framing global citizenship and human rights education: Framing Global Citizenship and Human Rights Education (2008) (11)
- Decolonizing Philosophies of Education: An Introduction (2012) (10)
- Qualitative Methodology, the Historical Sociologist and Oral Societies: Re-assessing the Reliability of Remembered "Facts (2001) (10)
- Recasting Postcolonial Citizenship through Civic Education: Critical Perspectives on Zambia (2006) (10)
- Searching for Development Education in Africa: Select Perspectives on Somalia, South Africa and Nigeria (2003) (9)
- Re) Imagining a Shared Future through Education for Global Social Justice (2010) (8)
- Globalization, Culture and Development: Perspectives on Africa (2010) (8)
- Global Perspectives on Adult Education: An Introduction (2009) (8)
- Mwalimu’s Mission: Julius Nyerere as (Adult) Educator and Philosopher of Community Development (2009) (8)
- Educating for Democratic Consciousness (2013) (8)
- Inquiry into Practice: Learning and Teaching Global Matters in Local Classrooms (2014) (7)
- Recentering the Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge: The Case of Africa With a Special Focus on the Global Role of Teachers (2009) (7)
- Decolonizing Democratic Education (2008) (7)
- 7. Rethinking Citizenship Education in Higher Education Institutions through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy: Educating the Local and Global Emancipated Citizen Ranilce Guimaraes-Iosif 76 (2011) (6)
- Clash of Oralities and Textualities: the Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa (2010) (6)
- The Humanist African Philosophy of Ubuntu: Anti-colonial Historical and Educational Analyses (2018) (6)
- Clash of Dominant Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education (2012) (6)
- Democratizing Education in Zambia: Sociohistorical Analyses (2005) (6)
- Overview SWOT Analysis Method and Its Application in Organizations (2013) (5)
- African Immigrant Students and Postsecondary Education in Canada: High School Teachers and School Career Counsellors as Gatekeepers (2021) (5)
- Globalization and Adult Education in the South (2009) (5)
- Education and Zambia’s Democratic Development: Reconstituting “Something” From the Predatory Project of Neoliberal Globalization (2007) (5)
- 10. Parallaxes and Paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical Reflections and Possibilities of Praxis in/through an International Online Course Dalene Swanson 120 (2011) (4)
- 6. Bridging (Representations of) the “Global Present” with the Life-World of the Classroom: Researching toward “Learning to Teach” Global Citizenship Education Paul Tarc 64 (2011) (4)
- Citizenship and Youth Social Engagement in Canada: Learning Challenges and Possibilities (2013) (4)
- Globalization as an Educational Framework of Convergence: Globalizing the Local and Localizing the Global (2008) (4)
- Economic Liberalization and Women's Education: Prospects for Post-Apartheid South Africa (1998) (4)
- Education and social development: An introduction: An Introduction (2008) (4)
- Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Select Discussions and Analyses (2008) (4)
- Clash of Dominant Discourses and African Philosophies and Epistemologies of Education: Anti-Colonial Analyses (2012) (3)
- 8. “It’s Overwhelming and Hard to Articulate”: Analyzing Student Narratives of an International Global Citizenship Education Field Experience George Richardson, Lucy De Fabrizio, Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh 95 (2011) (3)
- The Rhetorical Constructions of Global Citizenship and the Location of Youth: A Critical Analysis. (2017) (3)
- 3. De-Monoculturalizing Global Citizenship Education: The Need for Multicentric Intentions and Practices Ali A. Abdi 25 (2011) (3)
- The rise and fall of Somali nationalism: from traditional society to fragile 'nationhood' to post-State (1997) (3)
- Thinking about the significance of Nelson Mandela for education (2014) (3)
- Reconstructing the collapsed Somali State, and the promise (and possible pitfalls) of federalism (2003) (3)
- Adult Citizenship Education and Political Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013) (3)
- 1. Global Citizenship Education and the Role of the Academy: A Critical Introduction Lynette Shultz, Ali A. Abdi, George H. Richardson 1 (2011) (2)
- 9. Global Citizenship and the Environment: Embracing Life in All Its Forms Naomi Krogman, Lee Foote 108 (2011) (2)
- The Problematic Conceptualizations and Constructions of Poverty (2014) (2)
- Decolonizing Knowledge, Education and Social Development: Africanist Perspectives (2020) (2)
- Intensive Globalizations of African Education (2013) (2)
- Internationalizing Postsecondary Education (2013) (2)
- Freireian and Ubuntu philosophies of education: Onto-epistemological characteristics and pedagogical intersections (2021) (2)
- Introduction: Educating for Human Rights and Social Justice (2008) (1)
- Decolonizing Democratic Education Decolonizing Education (2008) (1)
- 20. Policy Implications for Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education in an Age of Neo-liberalism Evelyn Hamdon, Shelane Jorgenson 260 (2011) (1)
- At the Mercy of Informal Learning: Education and Development in Stateless Somalia (2005) (1)
- The Contradictions of International Education and International Development (2018) (1)
- Presidential Address - Education and Social Development: Global Perspectives (2009) (1)
- 19. Global Education in Higher Education Institutions in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Canada: Complementarity and Conflict in the Global University Nadya Weber 249 (2011) (1)
- From ‘education for all to education for none’: Somalia in the ‘careless’ global village (2008) (1)
- Frantz Fanon and postcolonial realities: Atemporal perspective (1999) (1)
- Issues of Development, Democratic Prospects, and Citizenship Education: Theoretical Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa. (2003) (1)
- 17. Higher Education Consortia as Frameworks for Global Citizenship: Post-secondary Institutions as Corporate Global Citizens in a Globalized World Rhonda Friesen 221 (2011) (1)
- Citizenship and Its Discontents: Educating for Political and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) (1)
- Reconstructing African Philosophies of Education: Historical and Contemporary Analyses (2020) (1)
- Reports: Exhibitions, Publications, Films, Music and Conferences (2015) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Fall 2018 Special Issue "Spirit and Heart" (2019) (0)
- CPI Welcomes Carol Lee's Special Issue (2017) (0)
- Book Review (2007) (0)
- Systems Thinking and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Examples from Kenya’s Afya Jijini Program (2021) (0)
- Engaging Africanist Philosophies and Epistemologies in Education for Social Development (2013) (0)
- 11. The Question of the “Other” in Global Citizenship Education: A Postcolonial Analysis of Telling Case Studies in England Vanessa Andreotti 140 (2011) (0)
- THEORIES AND CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF GCE (2011) (0)
- Moments of disengagement: Learning from our mistake (2018) (0)
- CPI Welcomes Maria Wallis and Cecille DePass' Special Issue (2016) (0)
- CHINUA ACHEBE (1930-2013): A CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL TRIBUTE (2013) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Summer 2020 Special Issue Influenced by Maya Angelou's Poem: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (2021) (0)
- Bond George C. and Gibson Nigel C., eds. Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus . Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2002. xxii + 474 pp. Bibliography. Index. $100.00. Cloth. $42.00. Paper. (2003) (0)
- The Afghan Bachah and its Discontents: An Introductory History (2022) (0)
- DIALOGIC INQUIRY: TOWARDS A SOCIOCULTURAL PRACTICE AND THEORY OF EDUCATION (Author: Gordon Wells) (2000) (0)
- Education for Development (2014) (0)
- Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence,and the Legacy of Slavery (review) (2000) (0)
- The Study of LTU Taxpayers’ Moral Behavior from Post Modern Ethical View (2015) (0)
- The Location of the Public Intellectual: Historical and Contemporary Analyses (2016) (0)
- 4. Toward Global Citizenship: Implications for Internationalization of the Curriculum in Canadian Higher Education Shibao Guo, Mackie Chase 40 (2011) (0)
- List of Contributors 273 (2011) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Summer 2019 Special Issue "The Politics of Contemporary Education" with Paul Crutcher, Invited Guest Editor (2019) (0)
- Review of "Learning and Social Difference: Challenges for Public Education and Critical Pedagogy" (2008) (0)
- Critical Theorizations of Education (2020) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Summer 2021 Special Issue “Multisensory Storytelling: Creating Different Forms of Knowing, Being and Living in our World” with Kathleen C. Sitter, invited Guest Editor (2022) (0)
- 3. The Precariat African-Canadian Academic: Problematic Historical Constructions, Perpetual Struggles for Recognition (2022) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Fall 2020 Special Issue: "Living Stories of Migrancy: Exile, Unconditional Hospitality and Transnational Citizenship" with N. Ng-A-Fook, C. Lee and H. Oguanobi, Invited Guest Editors (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- 16. The Question of Global Citizenship in Teacher Education Khalida Tanvir Syed 208 (2011) (0)
- CPI Forges New Directions (2015) (0)
- 12. An Evaluative Case Study of the UNICEF Global Education Projectin Iran, 2000–2003 Mehdi Mahdavinia 158 (2011) (0)
- POLICY ISSUES AND RESPONSES (2011) (0)
- Reviewers for volume 48 (2018) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Summer 2022 Special Isssue: "Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity" with Nikki Fairchild, Carol Lee, Kay Sidebottom, Invited Guest Editors (2022) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Besteman, Catherine. UNRAVELING SOMALIA: RACE, VIOLENCE, AND THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. (2000) (0)
- Critical Teachings of Comparative and International Education (2019) (0)
- 14. Negotiating the Complexity Within: Tensions, Issues and Possibilities of Educating for Global Citizenship Abroad Shelane Jorgenson 184 (2011) (0)
- Ethiopia’s Burgeoning Democratic Transition: New Glamour or New Statesmanship Gimmicks? (2021) (0)
- CURRICULUM ISSUES AND PROGRAMS (2011) (0)
- Critical reflections on reimagining civic education: How diverse societies form democratic citizens: A roundtable book discussion (2010) (0)
- 13. Teaching Literature in English for Brazilian Undergraduate Students: Challenges and Possibilities Roberto Bezerra da Silva 173 (2011) (0)
- In the Spirit of Ubuntu: Stories of Teaching and Research, Diane M. Caracciolo & Anne M. Mungai, Editors (2012) (0)
- CPI Welcomes the Fall 2019 Special Issue, "Caribbean Pelau" with Carol Campbell, invited Guest Editor (2019) (0)
- CPI Welcomes Kathleen C. Sitter’s Special Issue: Artistic Pedagogies in Academia (2018) (0)
- Decolonizing Higher Education and Curricula – Ali A. Abdi (2019) (0)
- CPI Welcomes Jennifer Eiserman's Special Issue (2017) (0)
- 15. The Place of Religion in a Curriculum for Global Citizenship Richard Rymarz 197 (2011) (0)
- CPI’s “Mission Impossible”: Accomplished (2015) (0)
- The Education of Nelson Mandela (2017) (0)
- CPI Welcomes Kathleen Sitter’s Special Issue Artistic Pedagogies in Academia (2018) (0)
- "Learning and Social Difference: Challenges for Public Education and Critical Pedagogy" (Carmel Borg & Peter Mayo) (2020) (0)
- CPI Welcomes Cyril Dabydeen’s Anthology: “Myth-Making: From Margin to Centre” (2016) (0)
- 5. The Global Community: Linked by Living on One Planet Margaret-Ann Armour 53 (2011) (0)
- Toward a decolonizing policy response to “education for all”: Policy knowledge, decolonized citizenships, and education for social well-being (2012) (0)
- Bachah-bāzī: A Socio-Erotic Tradition (2022) (0)
- 18. African Higher Education and Global Citizenship Education: Some Perspectives from Zimbabwe Michael Kariwo 236 (2011) (0)
- Foreword Indira V. Samarasekera vii (2011) (0)
- Youth: The Right to a Place in the Sun (2013) (0)
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