Amber De Clerck
Department of Educational Sciences / Research group Culture & Education , Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Email: Amber.Declerck@UGent.be
Research themes: Communication, media and discourse || Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Amber De Clerck is a PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the Department of Educational Sciences. In her doctoral research project, which is entitled “Unpacking cultural logics in educational contexts: a rhetorical approach”, the main aim is to study new rhetoric as a framework (a) to unpack and understand how cultural logics are at play in societal debates about race and racialization (e.g., the Black Pete debate in Flanders), and (b) as a basis to develop a critical, reflexive, and engaged pedagogy that generates an awareness of and reflexivity about these cultural logics. I specifically study the potential of Krista Ratcliffe’s concept of Rhetorical Listening as a methodological and pedagogical anti-racist framework to promote a better understanding of societal and conflicting issues about race and racialization.
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