Diego Fernando Ubaque Casallas

Trans-pedagogies: a Decolonial Response to Silences and Absences in Teacher Education

This proposal justifies why this doctoral dissertation is worth completing. It presents both theoretical and conceptual foundations to explain why this doctoral dissertation proposal inspires others to create spaces for sensing, thinking, doing, and emotioning decolonially. This proposal attempts to disrupt modes (including my own) of existing, thinking, being, and doing in academia. To do so, it proposes and elaborates on Trans-Pedagogies as a decolonial theory and methodology. Trans-Pedagogies have always been there; in the bodies, sensibilities, subjectivities, doings, pains, and sufferings of those wounded by coloniality. These have been there, within the exteriority; an exteriority that means “border dwelling and border dwelling generates border thinking and border sensing” (...

Fecha de sustentación de proyecto de tesis: Viernes, Octubre 17, 2025