Understanding anti-colonial education / edited by George J. Sefa Dei, Marycarmen Lara Villanueva and Rukiya Mohamed (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sefa Dei, George J., editor.

Villanueva, Marycarmen Lara, editor.

Mohamed, Rukiya, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Decolonization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This timely book brings together leading international scholars to confront the enduring legacy of colonialism in education. Drawing on anti-colonial theory, they challenge the Eurocentric, patriarchal and imperial structures that continue to impact schooling, knowledge production and educational practice. Through diverse case studies and perspectives, contributors reimagine education as a space of liberation, relationality and decolonial transformation. Chapters analyse pressing global issues ranging from epistemic violence to the carceral logics of schooling, while promoting Indigenous, Black and Global South epistemologies. Combining theory, activism and artistic expression, this book demonstrates that anti-colonial education is not just a critique but a call to action. Understanding Anti-Colonial Education is a crucial resource for students and scholars across education studies who are interested in decolonial pedagogy. It is also an essential read for practitioners, policymakers and activists seeking to revolutionise educational futures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword / Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Introduction to anti-colonial education / George J. Sefa Dei, Marycarmen Lara Villanueva and Rukiya Mohamed

Part I: Indigeneity as pedagogical praxis

1. An anticolonial model: Syncretic education through indigenous knowledge and intersectionality / Jamaine M. Abidogun

2. Unbleaching the curriculum: Anti-colonial education in English as a second language education and beyond / Lahcen Qasserras and Greg Wiggan

3. Decolonizing my science as a philosophical stance: The anticolonial autoethnography / Umar Umangay

4. Unravelling Eurocentric epistemology as a driver of epistemic oppression in education research: Possibilities and tensions / Marie McLeod

Part II: Theorizing the anti-colonial

5. Digital platforms and ancient African knowledge systems: Triumphs, vulnerabilities and pedagogical possibilities / Gloria Emeagwali

6. Anti-racist and anti-colonial pedagogy in early reading instruction / Hardeep Shergill

7. Indigenous zapatista metaphoric epistemologies: Some epistemologies of power for anti-colonial education / Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon

Part III: Spatiology of blacknesses

8. Black boyhood and the coloniality of Eurocentric education / Ahmed Ilmi

9. "Words have wings, words have feet": Autoethnographic recovery of home in Danticat's Brother, I'm dying / Palvi Sidana

10. My mother tongue is a colonial one: Reflections on anticolonial language education as resistance / Mercy O. Martins and Shona McIntosh

Part IV: The arts

11. Anticolonial and antiracist (audio)visual literacy / Rodrigo Zarate Moeadano

Part V: Configurations of power, fugitivity, and refusal

12. Decolonial and settler colonial studies, and the examination of boarding schools as geopolitical institutions / Cassandra Rose and Jairo I. Funez-Flores.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781803929620 (e-book)

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