Journal article
The Trickster Turn: Decolonial Epistemology for AI in Leadership Education
New directions for student leadership, Vol.First online
04/09/2026
PMID: 42693955
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Abstract
This paper critiques generative AI in leadership education as an instrument of optimization, where summarizing, coaching, and personalizing risk producing fluent, compliant leadership subjects while narrowing ethical inquiry. It develops Trickster AI, a speculative pedagogical framework informed by Ananse, Èṣù, and Māui, where contradiction, delay, reversal, humor, and refusal expose hidden premises of authority. The paper reframes friction as culturally situated and politically consequential; develops refusal as epistemic, procedural, and care-based practice; and proposes Leadership Through Rupture, where contradiction becomes information. It also addresses cultural extraction through consent, co-design and Indigenous data governance. A companion paper details implementation.
Details
- Title
- The Trickster Turn: Decolonial Epistemology for AI in Leadership Education
- Creators
- Yaw Ofosu-Asare - RMIT UniversityRebecca Ailís Nally - RMIT University
- Publication Details
- New directions for student leadership, Vol.First online
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Grant note
- Open access publishing facilitated by RMIT University, as part of the Wiley - RMIT University agreement via the Council of Australasian University Librarians.
- Identifiers
- 991013398133902368
- Copyright
- © 2026 The Author(s).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article