Critical Theorizations of Education

Ali A. Abdi is professor of social development education at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-author (with Ratna Ghosh) of Education and the Politics of Difference (Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2013) and editor of Decolonizing Philosophies of Education (Sense Publishers, 2011).

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Critical Theorizations of Education: An IntroductionAli A. Abdi2 Towards a (New) Political Economy of Education 2.0Alison Taylor3 Cosmo-uBuntu: Toward a New Theorizing for Justice in Education and BeyondJosé Cossa4 Critical Adult Education at the Margins: Colonial Racial Capitalism and Social Movement Learning in Contexts of Dispossession in the (Neo)ColoniesDip Kapoor5 Reconstructing Environmental Pedagogies into Critical, Transformative Environmental Learning Spaces for PraxisGreg William Misiaszek6 The Emerging Area of Education and SecurityRatna Ghosh7 Disability Studies and Socially Just Teacher Preparation: Implications for Curriculum and PraxisLevonne Abshire and Bathseba Opini8 Education Inequality under China’s Market Economy: The Experience of Marginalized TeachersShibao Guo, Yan Guo, Gulbahar Beckett and Qing Li9 Contextualizing Science Education as an Engagement Strategy for the African (Kenyan) LearnerSamson Madera Nashon, David Anderson, Festus Kelonye Beru and Selline Ooko10 Black Teachers, Black Students and Understanding “The Game of Mainstream”Kimberley Tavares and Carl E. James11 Stereotyping High School Immigrant African Male Students in Pursuit of Postsecondary EducationEdward Shizha, Stacey Wilson-Forsberg, Oliver Masakure, Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy and Ginette Lafrenière12 Disrupting the Capitalist Narrative of De/Credentialization: An Anticolonial Feminist Theorization of JusticeThashika Pillay and Neda Asadi13 Revisiting Research: The Personal, Historical and Lived Experiences Shaping Women Teachers’ IdentitiesDolana Mogadime14 Theorizing and Understanding the Evolving Gender Disparity in Educational Opportunity in AfricaN’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba15 An Islamic Pedagogic Instance in the Canadian Context: Towards Epistemic MulticentrismClaire Alkouatli16 Txeemsim Bends the Box to Bring New Light to Working with Indigenous MethodologiesAmy ParentIndex