My GEM journey
My GEM journey
This paper examines meta-colonialism in Ghana’s educational system by examining how colonial values continue to shape schools even after formal colonial rule ended. Using Dr. Hussein A. Bulhan’s concept of meta-colonialism, the paper argues that colonialism not only attacked land, labor, and political power, but also the “world of meaning”: language, identity, beauty, religion, and …
I took a Psychology class called Intergroup Peace and Conflict, where we looked at different ideas of peace and the psychological strategies people use to promote peace within and between groups. A big part of the class was questioning what we actually mean when we say a society is “peaceful,” especially when deeper issues like …
This piece reflects on education reform in postcolonial societies through a personal letter addressed to my mother. In the letter, I connect Ghana’s ongoing conversations about educational reform and digitization to the history of the Tonkin Free School in Vietnam, an anti-colonial education reform movement founded in Hanoi in 1907. By placing Ghana and Vietnam …
I had the opportunity to rediscover myself through Social Psychology: “Who am I?” This was the question I asked myself when I pretended to like wrestling because all my classmates did in grade 6, again when I shaved off all my hair before high school, and, more recently, when I arrived in Middletown, CT, USA, …
I took a class on Social Psychology in my third year at Wesleyan, and here I found quite a number of insights that complemented my knowledge from Introduction to Global Engagement. One of the topics we discussed in class was implicit bias. Implicit bias, specifically in the context of racism, challenges the prevalent misconception that …
