About Professor José Cossa
José Cossa, Ph.D., is a scholar, writer/author, researcher, poet, blogger, and an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University. Cossa holds a Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies with a depth area in Comparative and International Education from Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of the book Power, Politics, and Higher Education: International Regimes, Local Governments, and Educational Autonomy, the recipient of the 2012 Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on People of African Descent, and one of the Co-Founders of the AI4Afrika collaborative. Cossa’s research focus is on power dynamics in negotiation over educational policy; unveiling issues inherent in the promise of modernity and working towards de-colonializing, de-bordering, de-peripherizing, and de-centering the world; higher education policy and administration; (educational) system transfer; international development; and global and social justice. Currently, Cossa is working towards recalling, reconstructing, articulating, establishing, and engaging Cosmo-uBuntu as an Africa-derived, exterior to modernity, interdisciplinary theory of justice.
Reading
Assié‐Lumumba, N., Cossa, J. & Waghid, Y. (2019). Freire and Africa: A Focus and Impact on Education. In Torres, C.A. ,The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire (p. 149-166) link
