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Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education

About the Book Series

The Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education series aims to enhance our understanding and facilitate ongoing debates, research and theory relating to decolonization, decolonizing education and the curriculum, and postcolonialism in education. The series is international in scope and is aimed at upper-level and post-graduate students, researchers, and research students, as well as academics and scholars.

Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:

AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America

Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia

20 Series Titles


Neurodecolonisation in the Classroom Roxana Ng and Qigong as Embodied Pedagogy

Neurodecolonisation in the Classroom: Roxana Ng and Qigong as Embodied Pedagogy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Remy Y.S. Low
August 18, 2025

This book extends on the scholarship on decolonising higher education by focusing on classroom pedagogies that can transform students’ embodied affects and habits as conditioned by coloniality. It does so by offering a historical case study of how one exemplary educator – Canadian activist and ...

Decolonizing Epistemologies and Worldviews in Education New Ways of Knowing in Education and Policy

Decolonizing Epistemologies and Worldviews in Education: New Ways of Knowing in Education and Policy

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Kariwo, Chouaib El Bouhali
June 19, 2025

This edited volume examines the decolonization of worldviews and ways of knowing in education and educational policy. It critically challenges the Western interpretation of epistemology and ontology, providing a platform for contributors to demonstrate how concepts of decolonization, knowledge and ...

Decolonial Arts Praxis Transnational Pedagogies and Activism

Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism

1st Edition

Edited By Injeong Yoon-Ramirez, Alejandra I. Ramírez
May 05, 2025

Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism illustrates the productive potential of critical arts pedagogies in the ongoing work of decolonization by engaging art, activism, and transnational feminisms. Offering contributions from scholars, educators, artists, and activists from ...

Decolonizing the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South Applying Principles of Critical Applied Linguistics to Processes of Internationalization

Decolonizing the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South: Applying Principles of Critical Applied Linguistics to Processes of Internationalization

1st Edition

Edited By Kleber Aparecido da Silva, Lauro Sérgio Machado Pereira
May 05, 2025

This book reconceives the internationalization of higher education from the perspective of Global South researchers, empowering and giving visibility to this discourse. Challenging the first assumptions of internationalization of higher education (IHE) as something overwhelmingly positive due to ...

Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal Relevance, Need, and Barriers to the Integration of Local Knowledge

Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal: Relevance, Need, and Barriers to the Integration of Local Knowledge

1st Edition

By Maguette Diame
May 05, 2025

This book explores the discourse of traditional values and local practices within the formal educational system in Senegal, investigating how these cultural elements are present in the daily life of the community and integrated into formal schools and teaching. Studying the integration of concepts ...

An Early Venture in Decolonization – British Students at Indian and South Asian Universities

An Early Venture in Decolonization – British Students at Indian and South Asian Universities

1st Edition

By Mary Searle-Chatterjee
March 25, 2025

Timely in its contribution to on-going debates on the decolonization of education, this novel volume charts the development of a scheme of postgraduate transnational education that saw British students sent to Indian and South Asian Universities while political decolonization was still ongoing. ...

Decolonizing EFL Writing Education An L2 Writing Teacher's Poetic Autoethnography

Decolonizing EFL Writing Education: An L2 Writing Teacher's Poetic Autoethnography

1st Edition

By Shizhou Yang
January 15, 2025

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situated, dynamic, and complex view of multilingual writers through their second language (L2) academic writing and ...

Decolonizing Literacies Disrupting, Reclaiming, and Remembering Relationship in Literacy Education

Decolonizing Literacies: Disrupting, Reclaiming, and Remembering Relationship in Literacy Education

1st Edition

Edited By Towani Duchscher, Kimberly Lenters
December 19, 2024

This volume examines the ways in literacy has been used as a weapon and a means for settler colonialism, challenging colonized definitions of literacy and centring relationships as key to broadening understandings. It begins by confronting the multiple ways that settler colonialism has used ...

Decolonizing Study Abroad through the Identities of Latinx Students A Manifesto to Reclaim Identities and Heritage

Decolonizing Study Abroad through the Identities of Latinx Students: A Manifesto to Reclaim Identities and Heritage

1st Edition

By G. Sue Kasun, Beth Marks, Julián Jefferies
December 19, 2024

This book counters the common understanding of study abroad in Latin America as a White and middle-class colonizer practice and re-imagines it to fit the needs of Latinx immigrant/transnational higher education students.  The book centers Latinx youth inhabiting familial heritage spaces as a ...

Exclusionary Rationalities in Brazilian Schooling Decolonizing Historical Studies

Exclusionary Rationalities in Brazilian Schooling: Decolonizing Historical Studies

1st Edition

By Natália Gil
November 29, 2024

Through in-depth socio-historical analysis of discourses and processes of quantification around school performance and student failure rates in Brazil, this volume highlights the prevalence of Eurocentric colonized thought that results in the persistence of exclusion bottlenecks; different ...

Funds of Knowledge and Identity Pedagogies for Social Justice International Perspectives and Praxis from Communities, Classrooms, and Curriculum

Funds of Knowledge and Identity Pedagogies for Social Justice: International Perspectives and Praxis from Communities, Classrooms, and Curriculum

1st Edition

Edited By Moisés Esteban-Guitart
November 29, 2024

This edited volume takes the US-derived concept and praxis of funds of knowledge and applies it globally to critically analyse current education in line with social justice, antiracism, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. Edited by one of the premier international voices for the funds of ...

Dismantling Orientalist Representations in US Education Schooling and Otherness in the Social Studies Classroom

Dismantling Orientalist Representations in US Education: Schooling and Otherness in the Social Studies Classroom

1st Edition

By Daniel Osborn
September 30, 2024

This book examines the evolving role played by the social studies classroom in shaping national identity and contributing to Orientalism, which depicts the peoples of the Middle East as “the Other” relative to those of the United States and Europe. Building upon the momentum of critical approaches ...

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