Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures

“This book offers a powerful example of how a multifaceted perspective on decolonizing education can empower academics, educators and students to find alternative ways to redress injustices and imagine sustainable futures.” Oakleigh Welply, Durham University

"This book offers much-needed engagement with decolonial orientations to education for sustainable futures, extending critical scholarship while offering hope for ways of approaching reparative futures in times of great struggle." Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes University

Yvette Hutchinson is Senior Consultant at the British Council, an Advisory Group member for the Economic and Social Research Council’s Education Research Programme and Chair of UKFIET.

Artemio Arturo Cortez Ochoa is Research Associate at the REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education at the University of Bristol.

Julia Paulson is Associate Professor of Education, Peace and Conflict at the University of Bristol, where she is also Co-Director of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education.

Leon Tikly is UNESCO Chair in Inclusive, Good Quality Education at the University of Bristol.

Introduction – Yvette Hutchinson, Artemio Arturo Cortez Ochoa, Julia Paulson and Leon Tikly

Part 1: Connecting Decolonial and Sustainable Futures in Education

1. Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures: Some Conceptual Starting Points – Leon Tikly

2. Learning To Become With the World: Education for Future Survival – Common Worlds Research Collective

3. Knowledge Production, Access and Governance: A Song From the South – Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

Part 2: Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures: From Theory to Practice

4. Reimagining Education: Student Movements and the Possibility of a Critical Pedagogy and Feminist Praxis – Tania Saeed

5. British Council Dialogues on Decolonization – Yvette Hutchinson

6. Decolonizing the University: A Perspective From Bristol – Alvin Birdi

7. Decolonizing the Curriculum in English Secondary Schools: Lessons From Teacher-Led Initiatives in Bristol – Terra Glowach, Tanisha Hicks-Beresford and Rafael Mitchell

8. Little Voices: Embracing Difference in Bristol Schools Through Engaging Learner Voices – Ben Spence

Part 3: Education’s ‘Reparative’ Possibilities: Responsibilities and Reckonings for Sustainable Futures

9. Indigenous Education and Activism: Dignity and Repair for Inclusive Futures – Tarcila Rivera Zea

10. Learning With the Past: Racism, Education and Reparative Futures – Arathi Sriprakash, David Nally, Kevin Myers and Pedro Ramos-Pinto

11. Decolonizing Citational and Quotational Practices as a Reparative Politics – Esther Priyadharshini

12. Reparative Pedagogies – Julia Paulson

Conclusion – Yvette Hutchinson, Artemio Arturo Cortez Ochoa, Julia Paulson and Leon Tikly

Afterword – Robin Shields