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George J. Sefa Dei

George J. Sefa Dei

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
7971
World Ranking
6625
National Ranking
397

George J. Sefa Dei publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George J. Sefa Dei sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 136 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

George J. Sefa Dei D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George J. Sefa Dei sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

George J. Sefa Dei is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans the social sciences, with a focus on education, sociology and political science, health, political science and international relations, and demography. Major subfields of study include education, sociology and political science, health, political science and international relations, and demography.

Their research topics primarily focus on Indigenous and place-based education, Indigenous health, education, and rights, critical race theory in education, African cultural and philosophical studies, education systems and policy, global educational policies and reforms, and tourism, volunteerism, and development.

Recent papers authored by George J. Sefa Dei include:

  • Coming to Know and Knowing Differently: Implications of Educational Leadership (2021), published in Educational Administration Quarterly
  • Actualizing decolonization: a case for anticolonizing and Indigenizing the curriculum (2024), published in Journal of Philosophy of Education
  • Foreword (2021), published in Curriculum Inquiry
  • The Economics of Death and Funeral Celebration in a Ghanaian Akan Community (2021), published in Culture

Frequent co-authors in their work include Wambūi Karanja, Grace Erger, Nana Adusei Sefa Tweneboah, Alessia Cacciavillani, and Asna Adhami.

Publication venues frequently featuring their research are Journal of Philosophy of Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, Open Collections, Curriculum Inquiry, and Culture.

In addition to articles, George J. Sefa Dei has contributed to book literature. One such title is Elders' Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education (2022), published by Springer International Publishing.

They have been recognized with the award Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017, within the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Anti-Racism Education: Theory and Practice

    George J. Dei;Jill Vickers

  • Rethinking the role of Indigenous knowledges in the academy

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Reconstructing 'Dropout': A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students' Disengagement from School

    George J. Sefa Dei;Josephine Mazzuca;Elizabeth McIsaac

  • Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World.

    George Jerry Sefa Dei;Budd L. Hall;Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg

  • The Power of Social Theory: The Anti-Colonial Discursive Framework

    George J. Sefa Dei;Alireza Asgharzadeh

  • Afrocentricity: A Cornerstone of Pedagogy

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance

    George J. Sefa Dei;Arlo Kempf

  • Mapping the Terrain – Towards a New Politics of Resistance

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Schooling as Community: Race, Schooling, and the Education of African Youth

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Spiritual Knowing and Transformative Learning

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Teaching Africa: Towards a Transgressive Pedagogy

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • The Denial of Difference: refraining anti‐racist praxis

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • The Role of Afrocentricity in the Inclusive Curriculum in Canadian Schools

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Schooling And Education In Africa: The Case Of Ghana

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Critical Perspectives in Antiracism: An Introduction

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • The challenge of inclusive schooling in Africa: a Ghanaian case study

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Learning Culture, Spirituality and Local Knowledge: Implications for African Schooling

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • “Black Like Me”: Reframing Blackness for Decolonial Politics

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines

    Gloria Emeagwali;George J. Sefa Dei

  • Race and the Production of Identity in the Schooling Experiences of African‐Canadian Youth

    George J. Sefa Dei

  • ‘Becoming Black’: African‐Canadian youth and the politics of negotiating racial and racialised identities

    George J. Sefa Dei;Irma Marcia James

  • Anti-Racism Education: Theory and Practice

    Ali A. Abdi;George J. Sefa Dei

Frequent Co-Authors

Kwame McKenzie
Kwame McKenzie Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Jim Cummins
Jim Cummins University of Toronto

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