Transforming Development in Education

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'This important book draws together leading thinkers to provide a timely, decolonial critique of the international development and education agenda. The book moves beyond critique, however, to argue that focusing on reparation, recuperation, redress, rectification, and redistribution in education can assist us in transgressing coloniality and realising more just and sustainable futures.' -- Leon Tikly, University of Bristol, UK 'Transforming Development in Education is a timely volume because it offers ways forward for unlearning,reinventing, and repairing domination through education. Its scope of framing coloniality - and domination - goes beyond the Western metropoles and challenges us to rethink that science and philosophy are European inventions. It engages in a dialogue with multiple knowledges and possibilities to repair inequalities and foster justice. It is a critical read for all who work in the field of education and development.' -- Joan DeJaeghere, University of Minnesota, USA 'Contemporary resurgence of critiques of colonial education and knowledge systems provide refreshing possibilities for grounding education and learning in local, context-specific and ecologically diverse habitats. This book adds particular emphasis on potential for contemporary disruptions to historical trajectories of coloniality. Recovery of local languages and cultures as expressions of decolonisation are included in this analysis. Beyond knowledge, the book indicates how the design of education can be grounded in diversities.' -- Rajesh Tandon, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), India 'This fine book of reflections on the decolonising of education by Moira Faul and her colleagues illuminates the continuing role of education in sustaining colonial regimes of truth. But unlike many critiques, we can also find in these pages ways to break the colonial chains both within ourselves and within society. Fascinating collection.' -- Budd Hall, University of Victoria, Canada