Introduction to the special issue. Indigenous education in urban settings: critical examinations and meaningful responses

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Yulia Nesterova

Yulia Nesterova is Lecturer in International and Comparative Education at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests center around inequalities and injustices in education and partnerships and community engagement for quality education as well as education for peace and reconciliation. She has worked on various research and educational projects with Indigenous communities across the world, most notably in Asia-Pacific and Russia, and is writing a book on a comprehensive social justice framework for Indigenous education and development. Yulia is working on several projects, including investigating spatial inequalities in education in seven countries in Africa and Asia and exploring community-driven and indigenous approaches to peacebuilding. Prior to joining Glasgow, Yulia worked with UNESCO and is currently doing a project with UNESCO IIEP on the role of cities in achieving SDG4. She has conducted research in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.

Liz Jackson

Liz Jackson is Professor of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is the immediate past president of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and the former director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. She is also Deputy Editor for Educational Philosophy and Theory. Her recent authored books include Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (Routledge, 2021), Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (Routledge, 2019). Her research interests are in philosophy of education, global studies in education, and moral and civic education.