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Foreward

Foreword

 

Acknowledgments

I want to thank Jacqui Jesso of Collingwood General & Marine Hospital, Ontario and Rukiya Mohamed of the Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) for reading and commenting on an earlier draft of my Foreword.

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Notes

1 For ongoing examination of the impact of COVID-19 worldwide, please refer to: Johns Hopkins University (Citation2020) and APM Research Lab (Citation2020).

2 See MacIntyre (Citation2020) and Genot (Citation2020).

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George J. Sefa Dei

Ghanaian-born George Sefa Dei is a renowned educator, researcher and writer who is considered by many as one of Canada’s foremost scholars on race and anti-racism studies. He is a widely sought after academic, researcher and community worker whose professional and academic work has led to many Canadian and international speaking invitations in the US, Europe and Africa. Currently, he is a Professor of Social Justice Education & Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Professor Dei is the 2015, 2016, and 2018-19 Carnegie African Diasporan Fellow. In August of 2012, Professor Dei also received the honorary title of ‘Professor Extraordinaire’ from the Department of Inclusive Education, University of South Africa (UNISA). In 2017, he was elected as Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, the most prestigious award for an academic scholar. He also received the 2016 ‘Whitworth Award for Educational Research’ from the Canadian Education Association (CEA) awarded to the Canadian scholar whose research and scholarship have helped shaped Canadian national educational policy and practice. He is the 2019 Paulo Freire Democratic Project, Chapman University Social Justice Award winner. Professor Dei has thirty-five (35) books and over seventy (70) refereed journal articles to his credit. Finally, in June of 2007, Professor Dei was installed as a traditional chief in Ghana, specifically, as the Gyaasehene of the town of Asokore, Koforidua in the New Juaben Traditional Area of Ghana. His stool name is Nana Adusei Sefa Tweneboah.

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