Guest Editorial: The Paradox of Educational Silences and Cacophonies in Liquid Modernity

Sharon Stein

Critical and de-/post-/anti-colonial scholars of education have long pointed out that silence within a field of inquiry is rarely a naturally occurring absence; it is rather a product of socially sanctioned discourses and practices that actively create and reproduce this silence.  When she published ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ over 35 years ago, Gayatri Spivak (1988) compellingly argued that colonialism’s material, epistemic, and relational violences are not reproduced because the subaltern cannot or does not speak against these violences.  Instead, these violences are reproduced because tho

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