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Title: Masthead<\/td><\/tr>
File: Masthead_V2_I1_2026<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Title:\u00a0Effective Educational EDI Reforms: How to Move Beyond Tokenism, Polarization, and Performative Politics in Teacher Education<\/td><\/tr>
Volume: 2<\/td><\/tr>
Issue: 1<\/td><\/tr>
Abstract: This article mediates the polarized equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) discourse in higher education by fostering dialogue between critics of \u201cwoke culture\u201d and advocates for social justice. Rather than reinforcing binaries, we advocate for constructive and critical conversations that prioritize action, relational accountability, and institutional effectiveness for effective educational reforms rooted in dialogue and not debating. We engage critiques of EDI from multiple perspectives including concerns related to meritocracy, reverse discrimination, political indoctrination, victimhood culture, and threats to free speech. By reframing these debates as opportunities to reimagine educational structures, we argue that EDI can broaden merit and excellence while fostering innovation and equity, particularly in teacher education programs, which serve as key sites for such interventions. Overall, this article discusses strategies for moving beyond checklist equity (\u201cchequity\u201d) toward authentic community engagement and data- informed structural transformation. Cultivating brave spaces as part of the process is significant as it encourages reflection and dialogue. This makes it possible to constructively work through tensions, charged emotions, and complexities involved in identifying immediate needs and taking actions for institutional improvements.<\/td><\/tr>
Pages: 1-22<\/td><\/tr>
Keywords: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), anti-woke discourse, institutional transformation, brave spaces, and harm-reduction approaches.<\/td><\/tr>
Authors: Sofia Noori & Ardavan Eizadirad<\/td><\/tr>
File:\u00a0Noori & Eizadirad<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Title: A New Research Philosophy for a New Global Hegemony: Part 1<\/td><\/tr>
Volume: 2<\/td><\/tr>
Issue: 1<\/td><\/tr>
Abstract:
This article examines the philosophical system of Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari and its implications for social research methodology. Rooted in the Transcendent Philosophy of Mulla Sadra, Motahhari\u2019s framework integrates ontology and epistemology through the principles of graded existence and multi- sourced knowledge, encompassing sense perception, reason, and spiritual purification. His thoughts offer a robust critique of materialism, subjective idealism, and value-neutral positivism, emphasizing instead a realist, value-laden, and multi-dimensional approach to understanding human and social reality. This article proposes a \u201cTranscendent Realist Paradigm\u201d (TRP) derived from Motahhari\u2019s principles, characterized by multi-layered analysis, transcendent interpretation, and the integration of empirical, rational, and spiritual knowledge sources. This paradigm rejects reductionistic and one-dimensional conceptions of human nature and social change, offering instead a comprehensive framework for social inquiry that is intellectually rigorous, morally grounded, and oriented toward human flourishing and alignment with divine purpose.<\/td><\/tr>
Pages: 23-35<\/td><\/tr>
Keywords: Transcendent Realist Paradigm, Transcendent Philosophy, Ontology, Epistemology, Motahhari\u2019s Philosophical System.<\/td><\/tr>
Authors: Masood Zangeneh<\/td><\/tr>
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Title: Ethics in social research, its absences, urgencies, and possibilities: Critical proposals from Latin America (La \u00e9tica en la investigaci\u00f3n social, sus ausencias, urgencias y posibilidades: propuestas cr\u00edticas desde Am\u00e9rica Latina)<\/td><\/tr>
Volume: 2<\/td><\/tr>
Issue: 1<\/td><\/tr>
Abstract: Ethics in qualitative social research has particular features that distinguish it from the model formulated in the Global North for the health sciences, which is characterized by a universalist, quantitative, clinical approach and a limited critical perspective on its role in power relations. In Latin American social anthropology\u2014similarly to other social sciences\u2014 there are few institutionalized collective discussions about how ethics is being understood, excluded, and practiced in research processes. In this essay, I examine these issues in the Latin American context, along with some academic and community-based responses. I analyze key dimensions such as risk\/benefit, social value, informed consent, confidentiality, validity of results, and the ethics proposed by communities themselves to protect against researchers. I also draw on two institutional experiences in which I participated, raising questions and possibilities through examples from the fields of anthropology and health.<\/td><\/tr>
Pages: 36-61<\/td><\/tr>
Keywords: Research Ethics, Research Ethics Committees, Social Sciences.<\/td><\/tr>
Author: Rub\u00e9n Mu\u00f1oz Mart\u00ednez<\/td><\/tr>
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Title: Black Wellbeing as Black Methodological Praxis in the Age of Anti-Black Racism<\/td><\/tr>
Volume: 2<\/td><\/tr>
Issue: 1<\/td><\/tr>
Abstract: This paper examines Black well-being as a critical research methodology by interrogating and implicating conventional colonial research practices in producing and sustaining anti-Black racism. It argues that western scientific research traditions are rooted in violent colonial logics that mark Black communities as objects of inquiry to be measured, categorized, and corrected, rather than co-creators\u2019 of knowledge. Drawing on scholarship on anti-Black racism, colonial violence, and the \u201cvalue gap,\u201d the paper contends that western academic research has historically functioned as a technology of devaluing of Black life while legitimizing corporate greed. The paper invites us to imagine Black based approach to knowledge production as a way of acknowledging the Black diversity, Black complexity, Black uniqueness and Black lived realities while rejecting universalizing and positivist assumptions about a neat and singular Black. Black based methodological framework is grounded on ethical witnessing, historical accountability, and relational knowledge-making. At the centre of this framework is the concept of a \u201cthird eye,\u201d a philosophical approach of knowing that move beyond narrow and simple notions of objectivity and rationality to imagine Black histories, values, spiritualities, relationalities, vulnerabilities, and collective experiences as an ethical requirement in production of knowledge. Third eye is employed to centre Black well-being in knowledge making. In the context of western knowledge making, Black well-being is never as considered as belonging to neither emotional nor rational world of caring for oneself and as such erased from human knowledge and reality. The determination of Black life as instinctual further denies the presence of Blackness in both rational and emotional worlds of knowing. Third eye as a Black philosophical and linguistic approach centres and verbs Black and Blackness beyond and between the western cartesian duality and helps imagine how Black wellbeing as ethical knowledge making. Rather than institutionalizing knowledge, third eye instinctually operationalizes the process of knowledge making in ways that are respectful, and responsive to everyday Black experience.<\/td><\/tr>
Pages: 62-74<\/td><\/tr>
Keywords: Praxis, Methodology, Africa, Anti-Black Racism, Philosophy.<\/td><\/tr>
Authors: Dionisio Nyaga<\/td><\/tr>
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Title: Reclaiming African perspectives in knowledge production: a look at ethnographic perspective to research<\/td><\/tr>
Volume: 2<\/td><\/tr>
Issue: 1<\/td><\/tr>
Abstract: This paper looks at the concept of Africanization of research processes to provide a renewed way of looking at Africa and African as producers of knowledge. The paper contends that colonialism has caused immense epistemological violence among Africa communities both in the continent and in diaspora. To help reimagine research methodology under the current neoliberal registration system of knowledge, this paper calls for reimagination of how we think and act research. This means calling out the current numerical simplification
of how we look at Africa and African and start employing storytelling as a form deconstructing the gendered numerical essence of knowledge making. The paper sits within a decolonial perspective to start looking at the ways in which numbers can start mourning the loss of African knowledge making process under the current neoliberal supervision of what gets to be called truth.<\/td><\/tr>
Pages: 64-85<\/td><\/tr>
Keywords: Colonialism, Numerical, Africa, Africans, Stories, Gendered Numbers.<\/td><\/tr>
Authors: Dionisio Nyaga<\/td><\/tr>
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Title: Highly Skilled Muslim Immigrant Women in Canadian Higher Education: Lived Experiences<\/td><\/tr>
Volume: 2<\/td><\/tr>
Issue: 1<\/td><\/tr>
Abstract:\u00a0Highly skilled Muslim immigrant women enter higher education spaces to counter the obstacles in their economic integration in Canada. This research shares their lived experiences in Canadian higher education spaces in the context of contemporary anti-Muslim hate and the integration discourse. Through a decolonial framework, this study reveals that higher education can be a space of pervasive epistemic violence and gendered Islamophobia for these Muslim women. Their lived experiences reveal a negation of their voice and agency within the hierarchy of knowledge, which structures the colonial epistemological basis of Western higher education. The overall aim is to engage with Muslim women\u2019s lived experiences from a decolonial intersectional perspective on race, gender, and religion. The discussion offers decolonial possibilities and imperatives for teaching and learning for peace. This study proposes the use of decolonial methodology for future studies to center the lived experiences of Muslim immigrant women.<\/td><\/tr>
Pages: 75-96<\/td><\/tr>
Keywords: Higher Education, Muslim Women, Canada, Islamophobia, Integration, Labour Market.<\/td><\/tr>
Authors: Anila Zainub<\/td><\/tr>
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