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Trans-Pedagogies: A Decolonial Response to Silences and Absences in Teacher Education

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ELT Local Research Agendas IV
Titulo
Trans-Pedagogies: A Decolonial Response to Silences and Absences in Teacher Education
Autor(es)
Diego Fernando Ubaque Casallas
Titulo del Libro
ELT Local Research Agendas IV
Pais
Colombia
Editorial
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
ISBN
978-958-787-896-7
Paginas
111-124
Año
2025

This chapter introduces trans-pedagogies as a decolonial response to the neo-colonial imperatives shaping Colombian English Language Teaching and teacher education. Beyond canonical pedagogy, trans-pedagogies function as praxes that delegitimize epistemic violence and the marginalization of dissident subjectivities. Informed by border thinking and Ubuntu philosophy, I argue that dominant pedagogical constructs silence alternative ways of knowing and being. Drawing on autoethnographic encounters with dissident students and teachers, trans-pedagogies are proposed as relational, embodied, and collective practices of knowing, sensing, and doing. They are not emancipatory methods but decolonial praxes that seek to delink from coloniality, affirm pluriversality, and foster healing, mutual care, and epistemic justice.