ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how social justice education (SJE) and Anti-Colonial Pedagogical Framework could add a critical component to the intercultural educational framework so as to leverage diversity towards education for social change. It focuses on social justice education and pedagogy as it is the framework that goes beyond the study of culture to address issues of justice, oppression, power, and privilege, and how individuals and identities are constructed within a sociopolitical context marked by access or lack thereof. The chapter discusses how the conceptual framework of SJE and Anti-Colonial Framework could inform intercultural education in its practice in European schools. Anti-colonial praxis rest on the premise that schools are saturated by colonial dynamics. Critical pedagogy remains a source of hope and possibility for educators engaged in struggles against oppression that goes beyond the classroom and beyond the structures of schools.
