Imagining Anti-oppressive Education Futures

Agitations for Justice
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10936-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Local/Global Issues in Education

Schools, universities and education more broadly are at the centre of multiple contestations over the past, present and future. In the urgency of climate change, artificial intelligence, threats to the rights of marginalised groups, the rise of war, and ongoing colonial and capitalist dominance, challenges for education abound. In addition, with increased state repression, there is a pressing need to rethink the strategies of activism and agitation for just societies.
This collection brings together scholars across a range of contexts who are grappling with these challenges and engaging a radical imagination through theorisation, experimentation and speculation to transform education into a site of justice and possibility. The authors in this book speak back to dominant discourses and methods in education policy and practice, offering alternative ways of approaching and addressing policy dilemmas in areas such as LGBTQ, climate change and Indigenous issues. Based on on-the-ground research, it collates a range of conceptual resources and tools, working to theorise, experiment and speculate as to how schools, universities and education might address harm and inequality, envisioning and enacting different futures.
The book is an essential read for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those engaged in education in schools and universities – including teachers, school leaders and parents – who are interested in the role of education in addressing issues of social justice in contemporary societies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rudolph, Sophie

Cabiles, Bonita S.

Chatelier, Stephen

Di Gregorio, Elisa

Fricker, Aleryk

Thomas, Archie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1: Educational agitations in uncertain times

Sophie Rudolph, Archie Thomas, Aleryk Fricker, Elisa Di Gregorio, Stephen Chatelier, and Bonita S. Cabiles

Part I: Theorising

2: Education for uprising: The radical imagination and direct action as collective agitational principles and practices
Elke van Dermijnsbrugge

3: Moving beyond educational genocide: The role of joy in reimagining education for Indigenous futures
Samara Hand

4: Whispers of dissent: Covert no-saying as a form of agitation in Hong Kong
Jason Cong Lin

Part II: Experimenting

5:  Young people’s activism: Informal planning pathways towards critical futures
Christopher Millora, Theresa Frey, and Abigail Martinez-Renteria

6: Creating and nurturing counterspaces and critical solidarities: Refusing the corporate university
Education Justice Collective

7: Student encampments as educational agitation: The university reimagined
Nicholas Herriot and Katie Maher

8: Resisting the Googlization of education: A research agenda for addressing inequities in education
Luci Pangrazio, Ivan Matovich, and Julian Sefton-Green

Part III: Speculating

9: Not schooling, but education: Transing education futures
j wallace skelton

10: Spectrumising intellectual worth: Eugenics and maths in New South Wales public schools

Chela Weitzel

11: Love in times of dissent: The case of Filipinx/o/a student activism
Bonita S. Cabiles and Camille Rose Carl R. Mendoza

12: Hope Ltd: A critical collaborative autoethnography
Fetaui Iosefo and Tessa Tupai

Afterword

13: Horizons of Hope: An Afterword
Jane Kenway

Über Autor(innen)

Sophie Rudolph is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her teaching and research are concerned with the impact of settler colonialism on education and are informed by historical and sociological perspectives and critical theories.

Bonita S. Cabiles is Lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her current work examines schooling, as a social practice, in contexts of diversity and disadvantage to illuminate socially just possibilities through education.

Stephen Chatelier is Senior Lecturer in International Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research draws on postcolonial, social and critical theory to examine educational theory, policy and practice.

Elisa Di Gregorio is Lecturer at Adelaide University, Australia. Elisa’s work critically examines schooling systems and the politics of educational inequality. She holds expertise in Australian school funding architectures and formulas, school choice and equity funding for students with disabilities.

Aleryk Fricker is a proud Dja Dja Wurrung Early Career Researcher in the NIKERI Institute at Deakin University on unceded Wadawurrung Country, Australia. His research focuses on decolonising education and Indigenous education in Australia so all students can benefit from the oldest knowledges in the world.

Archie Thomas is Chancellors’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research explores how pedagogical institutions, such as schools and the media, can change to serve the aspirations of historically marginalised groups.