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
Neurodecolonisation in the Classroom: Roxana Ng and Qigong as Embodied Pedagogy
1st Edition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...