ABSTRACT

This paper responds to Townsend (2020), and Gibson and Farias (2020), who were invited to write commentaries regarding Simaan’s (2020) ‘Decolonising occupational science education through learning activities based on a study from the Global South’. My reply acknowledges work done by scholars in the Global North and South, both in and outside occupational science, that critiques Western-centric hegemony in academia. It recognises the multiple aspects of decolonial work in occupational science education, and its collective and continuous nature. I argue that my objective of stimulating reflections and discussion about decolonising occupational science education and knowledge has been achieved by this collective effort to extend this discourse. Future reflections, research, and activism in this area are of paramount importance if we are to truly decolonise occupational science.

摘要

本文回应了汤森（Townsend，2020）和吉布森（Gibson）和法里亚斯（Farias，2020），他们被邀请就Simaan（2020）的“通过基于全球南方研究的学习活动，使职业科学教育脱轨”发表评论。我的答复承认全球北方​​和南方学者在职业科学领域内外所做的工作，这些工作批评了学术界以西方为中心的霸权。它认识到职业科学教育中非殖民化工作的多个方面，以及其集体性和连续性。我认为，通过对这一论述进行扩展的集体努力，我实现了激发思考和进行关于非殖民化职业科学教育和知识的讨论的目的。未来的思考，研究，