Hari Prasad Sacré
Hari Prasad Sacré obtained a doctoral degree in educational sciences from Ghent University with his dissertation entitled Reading Illiteracy: A pedagogical study about cultural (il)literacy in Flanders. His research discusses new forms of illiteracy arising in displaced communities forcefully travelling imperial borders and settling in Flanders and Brussels. Drawing on a postcolonial direction in critical pedagogy, integrating the work of Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak and Henry Giroux, he explores the possibilities for emancipation from cultural illiteracy. Overall, his academic and educational work explores cultural translation as a pedagogical project for dialogue, solidarity and emancipation in multilingual and globalising societies.
As a postdoctoral member of the research group, he focuses on the emancipation of fractured multilingualism, primarily in the context of forced migration and displacement (including transnational adoption), which leads to children unlearning their heritage language and being unable to communicate with their family or community of origin.
