Working With Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Educatio

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 enrich higher education study and pedagogies in the future.

List of contents

Series Editors' Introduction.  Introduction: Refusing the Colonial University.  Part 1. Refusing Coloniality of Life-and-Death in Higher Education.  1. Conditions of Arrival: On Refusing to Be Included. 2. The Affective Dimensions of Refusal in Higher Education Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications. 3. Populating the Savage Slot: Decolonizing Autoethnographic Refusals in Higher Education. 4. Refusing Higher Education: Vivacide and the Economies of Dissipation. Part 2. Antiracist Refusal and Political Pedagogical Action.  5. Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Australian Colonial logic of the Centre and Aboriginal Refusal. 6. Anger's erotic politics: Antiracist refusal as decolonial political action. 7. (Re)imagining HESA through Refusal; The Complexities of Confronting Colonialism the University. 8. Plastic Refusals; The Africanisation Challenge of South African Higher Education. Part 3. (Po)ethical Praxis of Refusal. 9. Refusing Archives of Possibility; A Decolonial Praxis of Temporalizing Ethics. 10. Refusing coloniality; An ethical praxis of paying attention to words in academic writing. 11. Slow reading as refusal; Doing higher education differently. Afterword: begin with a refusal.

About the author

Petra Mikulan is Sessional Lecturer of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus.

Summary

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 enrich higher education study and pedagogies in the future.

Product details

• Authors: Petra (The University of British Columbia Mikulan
• Assisted by: Petra Mikulan (Editor), Michalinos Zembylas (Editor), Zembylas Michalinos (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032434384
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243438-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); EDUCATION / General, Cultural Studies, EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher