THE LANDSCAPE OF POSSIBILITIES: EDUCATION IN A “NEW SUDAN” (original) (raw)

Generally, a lot of scholarly effort went into chronicling the historical development of the educational system in Sudan, analysing its current state, making comparisons with other countries, proposing reforms or envisioning alternative systems. In this volume, the lens for analysing the education system is "social justice". This analytical framework is combined in this chapter with critical futures thinking to explore possibilities for the educational system in Sudan, but also to question whether we are seeing all the possibilities or being impeded by our worldviews and mental models. I elaborate on this argument by first exploring examples of images that we hold about the future of education, presumably a better one. Secondly, I use decolonial and feminist ideas, as well as draw on Paulo Freire's educational theories, to investigate whether particular images have become dominant by reflecting on the power of knowledge and meaning nested in these images of the future. In other words, are they framing what is possible? For example, can we imagine a decolonised and feminist education in Sudanese schools and universities any time soon?