Working With Theories Of Refusal And Decolonization In Higher Education

Author : Petra Mikulan,Michalinos Zembylas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003821953

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Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education by Petra Mikulan,Michalinos Zembylas Pdf

This volume argues that refusal is a viable political ethics in education. It is an ethics that allows space for new possibilities to emerge, with the potential to enrich higher education study and pedagogies in the future. Chapters examine the ethical, epistemological, political and affective premises of refusing the colonial university, and reflect upon what refusal means for higher education decolonization across international settings. Refusal marks a political ethos and praxis that denies, resists, reframes and redirects colonial and neoliberal logics, while asserting diverse sovereignties and lifeworlds. Whereas resistance may reinscribe the weakness of the colonized in the power relations with the colonizer, refusal interrupts the smooth operation of power relations, denying the authority of the settler state and remaking the rules of engagement. It is a political stance and action that denies the very legitimacy of power over the subjugated. This collection views refusal not as an end in itself, nor as a mode of critique, but as a necessary first step for educators and students in higher education to invest in the idea of radically different modes of futurity. It explores how educators and students in higher education can invent pedagogies of refusal that function ethically, affectively and politically, and asks: What do pedagogies of refusal look like? How might western universities sustain and support refusal, rather than discipline it? What assumptions are sustained by ruling out certain educational futures as out of bounds, or impossible? This book will be important reading for researchers, scholars and educators in Decolonizing Education, Higher Education Transformation, and Philosophy of Education. It will also be valuable to policymakers and activists who are considering how refusal might be carried out within and outside institutions.

Author : Aneta Hayes,Kathy Luckett,Greg William Misiaszek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000860306

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Possibilities and Complexities of Decolonising Higher Education by Aneta Hayes,Kathy Luckett,Greg William Misiaszek Pdf

The chapters in this book highlight the possibilities and complexities of putting decolonial theory to work in higher education in Northern and Southern contexts across the globe. This book looks at decolonial work as praxis involving transformation at a range of levels from theoretical development, national policy, institutional policy and culture, academic discipline, programme, course, classroom, student and the self. Our authors argue that praxis in their contexts includes working at institutional level to undo the historical power of ‘coloniality’ in universities in the metropoles, introducing Indigenous knowledges into curricula and undoing the effects of ‘coloniality’ in embodiment, temporality and whiteness. We, as editors, argue for the need for transformation of the self as well as structures, and highlight qualities such as reflexivity on our own entanglements with coloniality, and why they occur, in this undoing. The approach offered in this book emphasises the connection between significant personal change as a pre-condition and an epistemological process to connect critical decolonial theory and our teaching practice. The book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Teaching in Higher Education.

Author : Linda Tuhiwai Smith,Eve Tuck,K. Wayne Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429998621

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Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education by Linda Tuhiwai Smith,Eve Tuck,K. Wayne Yang Pdf

Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational researchers who are looking for possibilities beyond the limits of liberal democratic schooling. Featuring original chapters by authors at the forefront of theorizing, practice, research, and activism, this volume helps define and imagine the exciting interstices between Indigenous and decolonizing studies and education. Each chapter forwards Indigenous principles - such as Land as literacy and water as life - that are grounded in place-specific efforts of creating Indigenous universities and schools, community organizing and social movements, trans and Two Spirit practices, refusals of state policies, and land-based and water-based pedagogies.

Author : Shannon Morreira,Kathy Luckett,Siseko H. Kumalo,Manjeet Ramgotra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000402568

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Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education by Shannon Morreira,Kathy Luckett,Siseko H. Kumalo,Manjeet Ramgotra Pdf

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education. Occasionally, a theoretical concept arises in academic debate that cuts across individual disciplines. Such concepts – which may well have already been in use and debated for some time - become suddenly newly and increasingly important at a particular historical juncture. Right now, debates around decolonisation are on the rise globally, as we become increasingly aware that many of the old power imbalances brought into play by colonialism have not gone away in the present. The authors in this volume bring theories of decoloniality into conversation with the structural, cultural, institutional, relational and personal logics of curriculum, pedagogy and teaching practice. What is enabled, in practice, when academics set out to decolonize their teaching spaces? What commonalities and differences are there where academics set out to do so in universities across disparate political and geographical spaces? This book explores what is at stake when decolonial work is taken from the level of theory into actual practice. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Author : Lisa A. Mazzei,Alecia Y. Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000932119

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Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry by Lisa A. Mazzei,Alecia Y. Jackson Pdf

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments. What makes this book innovative is the singular focus on postfoundational paradigms, borrowed from the humanities and sciences, that are enveloped in what is referred to as the ontological turn, the new empiricisms, and the new materialisms. Postfoundational inquiry is conceived by the editors as emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive. While the editors name the facets of these contingent approaches and explain how they work, they do so not in order to fix a new method, but to spur new connectives. In this collection, authors take up a range of postfoundational theories such as poststructuralism, posthumanism, postcolonialism, feminist new materialism, speculative/ new empiricism, agential realism, immanent ontologies, and affect theory. Provoked by a series of reorienting questions, chapters in the book offer enactments as a way of unfurling what is unthought, not yet, and becoming. The chapters are organized according to four Openings: Atmospheres, Affects, and Hauntings; Archives, Worldings, and Sketchings; Escaping Tradition, Beginning Elsewhere, and the Politics of Doing Otherwise; Pre-personal Agencies and Thought Taking Flight. This book can be used as a standalone text in advanced qualitative inquiry courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that examine the use of theory in research.

Author : David R. Cole
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819734184

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Educational Research and the Question(s) of Time by David R. Cole Pdf

Author : Felix Maringe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000790870

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Colonization and Epistemic Injustice in Higher Education by Felix Maringe Pdf

Providing coherence in understanding the role that education and higher education played in the colonizing purposes of the rich nations of the North, this book draws from multiple geopolitical spaces across the world to consider how epistemic injustice has characterized colonial higher education systems. Within this text, carefully chosen international contributors explore how colonialism, coloniality, and colonization have impacted indigenous people’s ways of knowing, feeling, behaving, valuing, being, and becoming in fundamental ways and how the West’s idea of education and schooling have been used as key instruments in the project of world domination and subjugation. Beyond these key entry concepts, chapters use ideas of modernity, post-modernism, globalization, internationalization, and neo-liberalism to examine how higher education in colonial and post-colonial societies still answers to a colonial narrative and what can be done to decolonize the system. Unpacking the historical and philosophical antecedents of higher education and critically examining the intentions and impact of colonial assumptions behind higher education in different parts of the world, this is suitable reading for postgraduates and scholars in the field of higher education, as well as senior management teams in universities and practitioners who work directly in the field of transformation in government, and university departments.

Author : Kenjus T. Watson,Nora Cisneros,Lindsay Pérez Huber,Verónica Vélez
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800377875

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Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education by Kenjus T. Watson,Nora Cisneros,Lindsay Pérez Huber,Verónica Vélez Pdf

This cutting-edge Handbook goes beyond discourses of equity, inclusion, and diversity, carving a space for critical discussions about the relationships between Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and the university. In doing so, it forges new paths and alternative conceptual starting points to consider in making a commitment to social justice in higher education.

Author : Sara de Jong,Rosalba Icaza,Olivia U. Rutazibwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351128964

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Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning by Sara de Jong,Rosalba Icaza,Olivia U. Rutazibwa Pdf

Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning is a resource for teachers and learners seeking to participate in the creation of radical and liberating spaces in the academy and beyond. This edited volume is inspired by, and applies, decolonial and feminist thought – two fields with powerful traditions of critical pedagogy, which have shared productive exchange. The structure of this collection reflects the synergies between decolonial and feminist thought in its four parts, which offer reflections on the politics of knowledge; the challenging pathways of finding your voice; the constraints and possibilities of institutional contexts; and the relation between decolonial and feminist thought and established academic disciplines. To root this book in the political struggles that inspire it, and to maintain the close connection between political action and reflection in praxis, chapters are interspersed with manifestos formulated by activists from across the world, as further resources for learning and teaching. These essays definitively argue that the decolonization of universities, through the re-examination of how knowledge is produced and taught, is only strengthened when connected to feminist and critical queer and gender perspectives. Concurrently, they make the compelling case that gender and feminist teaching can be enhanced and developed when open to its own decolonization.

Author : Jeroen Huisman,Malcolm Tight
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781802624410

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Theory and Method in Higher Education Research by Jeroen Huisman,Malcolm Tight Pdf

This volume presents international perspectives on the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education. Topics discussed include critical race theory; the use of communities of practice theory; participant ethnography; and decolonization using indigenous principles.

Author : D. Tran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350160033

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Decolonizing University Teaching and Learning by D. Tran Pdf

Decolonizing University Teaching and Learning considers apprehensions around decolonizing and offers a summary of key arguments within critical discussion around its meaning and value through engagement with a growing body of literature. The contextually based and complex discussions concerning decolonization means one cannot be guided through the process in a particular way. Therefore, the text is not intended to be read as a handbook for decolonizing teaching and learning, nor is it an anthropologically oriented text. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the book highlights the benefits of decolonizing teaching and learning for all students and staff. This book offers up the TRAAC model as an entry point for challenging conversations. By bringing together questions raised within existing scholarly discussions, the TRAAC model provides prompts to instigate deeper reflections around decolonizing by way of supporting colleagues to start a productive dialogue. Through these critically reflective and reflexive conversations, action-oriented discussions can simultaneously take place. The value of this book lies in the contributions from authors based across a number of universities and disciplines. Reflecting on personal experiences, staff and student relationships, subject specific challenges, and wider issues within HE, the contributions are grounded in the employment of the TRAAC model as a mode of entry into discussing particular issues around decolonizing teaching and learning.

Author : Abby Day,Lois Lee,Dave S.P. Thomas,James Spickard
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529216660

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Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization by Abby Day,Lois Lee,Dave S.P. Thomas,James Spickard Pdf

Despite progress, the Western higher education system is still largely dominated by scholars from the privileged classes of the Global North. This book presents examples of efforts to diversify points of view, include previously excluded people, and decolonize curricula. What has worked? What hasn’t? What further visions do we need? How can we bring about a more democratic and just academic life for all? Written by scholars from different disciplines, countries, and backgrounds, this book offers an internationally relevant, practical guide to ‘doing diversity’ in the social sciences and humanities and decolonising higher education as a whole.

Author : Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo,Hanelie Adendorff,Margaret A.L. Blackie,Aslam Fataar,Paul Maluleka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000597783

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Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers by Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo,Hanelie Adendorff,Margaret A.L. Blackie,Aslam Fataar,Paul Maluleka Pdf

Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education. Galvanised by #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall student protests, South Africa has seen particularly intense and broad social engagement with debates over decolonising universities. However, much of this debate has been consumed with definitions and meanings. In contrast, Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers shows how conceptual tools, specifically from Legitimation Code Theory, can be enacted in research and teaching to meaningfully work towards productive decolonisation. Each chapter addresses a key issue in contemporary debates in South African higher education and show how practices concerning knowledge and knowers are playing a role, drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, praxis, and interdisciplinary research.

Author : Amasa P. Ndofirepi,Felix Maringe,Simon Vurayai,Gloria Erima
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000764185

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Decolonising African University Knowledges, Volume 2 by Amasa P. Ndofirepi,Felix Maringe,Simon Vurayai,Gloria Erima Pdf

This book explores the influence of neoliberal globalisation on African higher education, considering the impact of the politics of neoliberal ideology on the nature and sources of knowledge in African universities. Written by African scholars, the book engages with debates around the commodification of knowledge, socially just knowledge, knowledge transformation, collaboration, and partnerships, and indigenous knowledge systems. It challenges the neoliberal approach to knowledge production and dissemination in African universities and contributes to debates around decolonising knowledge production in Africa. The chapters draw on experiences from universities in different sub-Saharan countries to show how the manifestation of neo-colonialism through the pursuit of the hegemonic neoliberal philosophy is impacting on decolonising university knowledge in Africa. Providing a unique critique of the impact of neoliberal higher education in Africa, the book will be essential reading for researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the field of Sociology of Education, decolonising education, Inclusive Education, and Education Policy.

Author : Ali A. Abdi,Greg William Misiaszek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030863432

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The Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories of Education by Ali A. Abdi,Greg William Misiaszek Pdf

This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability. The handbook covers areas such as critical thought systems of education, critical race (and racialization) theories of education, critical international/global citizenship education, and critical studies in education and literacy studies. In each section, the chapter authors illuminate the current state of the field and probe more inclusive ways to achieve multicentric knowledge and learning possibilities.