About Us
What is CEEJ Network?
The Crisis, Education, and Epistemic Justice network (CEEJ) is founded on the conceptual argument that crisis is upon education. The network invokes an imagination of crisis in which active/visible and passive/invisible forms of violence befall education inflicting a state of conflict that if left unaddressed threatens to stifle potentialities in education. The network takes a broad view of ‘crisis’, encompassing not only physical crises of violence, displacement, and environmental catastrophe, but also the intellectual harm, erasure, and suffering that stem from epistemic injustice, institutional biases, and imposed silences within educational contexts.
Imposed silences directly manifest in the exclusion of valuable actors facing systemic disadvantages and extend to the use of the educational space in perpetuating global power inequities and oppression (Landy et al., 2020). By disrupting a comfortable reliance on established paradigms and encouraging a ‘critical openness’ to different ways of thinking (Fricker, 2003), the CEEJ network endeavours to centre perspectives that are actively erased. This is accomplished by bringing together students, scholars, practitioners, and community members from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, facilitating interdisciplinary exchange, exchange of ideas, and inclusive dialogue around educational crises grounded in the plurality of lived experiences.
Through organised social activities, exhibitions, artwork and artefacts, coordinated reading groups, seminars, workshops, publications, advocacy initiatives, and hosted events, network participants collaboratively investigate educational injustices while amplifying marginalized voices and co-developing emancipatory visions for educational reform and transformation. The network serves as a space for dialogue, research, and advocacy around the ongoing harms and injustices imposed through and upon education systems, particularly in regions (geographical, historical and socio-spatial) grappling with entrenched power imbalances, systemic disadvantages, and marginalization.
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The Crisis, Education, and Epistemic Justice network (CEEJ) is founded on the conceptual argument that crisis is upon education.
In summary
The CEEJ Network
aims to collaboratively confront and transform educational injustices, oppression, and marginalization through interdisciplinary dialogue, centering marginalized voices and perspectives, and collectively re-imagining more equitable and emancipatory visions for education systems and practices
– Andrew Simmons,
City Mayor
