Edwin Nii Bonney

Edwin Nii Bonney studies coloniality in education to decolonize and reimagine with community how to structure education that centers and empowers minoritized, racialized, and indigenous languages, cultures, knowledge, histories, and literacies. He teaches educational leaders how to use improvement science to address problems of practice in schools. He researches (1) how educational policies and practices devalue, silence, and marginalize minoritized, racialized, and indigenous languages (ways of speaking), cultures (ways of being and doing), knowledge (ways of knowing), histories, and literacies; (2) how educational leaders reinforce and/or resist policies and practices that marginalize and silence their minoritized, racialized, and vulnerable students and family; (3) highlighting stories of resistance among minoritized, racialized, and vulnerable groups that can inform how to change educational policies and practices. He earned his BA in Psychology and Spanish at the University of Ghana, MA in Language Teaching, and PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is currently an assistant professor at Clemson University.