In this autoethnography, I examine the learning process I undertook during my study of art made by Nyungar children from the Stolen Generations in Western Australia. My visit to Australia in 2007 and subsequent research of the Stolen Generations led to a 16-year journey of evaluating my intentions as a white cisgender female from a colonialist…

In this paper, we share the narratives of three aspiring bilingual educators -- Delia, Nicole, and Jay -- as they experience a study abroad program in Antigua, Guatemala. Drawing on theories of nepalnta and conocimiento, we utilize narrative inquiry to demonstrate how these pre-service bilingual teachers from Texas negotiated their linguistic and…

From 1493 to 1507, Hernando de Talavera, the first archbishop of Granada after the Spanish Reconquista, ran a residential school for Morisco noble boys in his palace. This article argues that Talavera's school set the foundation for the long history of residential schooling as a tool to transform or eradicate a conquered culture through the…

The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the "two-worlds" narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices. The authors integrate the metaphor of the…

This dissertation surveys the development of the Hawaiian higher educational system in the 19th century Hawaiian Kingdom as a strategy of Hawaiian leadership in promoting and protecting Hawaiian independence. This analysis revisits a Hawaiian educational history canon that overwhelmingly credits missionaries and foreigners as imposing an…

This article addresses relations between concepts of 'self', 'other(s)' and 'othering' through a reading of the revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's psychoaffective phenomenological and pedagogical narrative approach, reading his work as phenomenological and educational as well as critiquing phenomenology, psychology, education and (of…

This paper examines a research project carried out in the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, UK, which drew on creative arts-based methodologies, popular education, and 'post-abyssal' epistemologies to co-create frameworks of knowledge with communities in struggle. A 'spatial vocabulary of power' for Merseyside was developed to render explicit the…

The coloniality matrix of power is foundational to many national education systems. Thinking with Lather ("Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society", 27(1), 199-227), we argue that "traces, fragments, and ruins survive, embedded in common sense, perspective, social practices, and political power" (p. 200) long after…

What if children remade the world? What would adults have to give up, make room for, no longer silence or erase to allow this world to be remade? In this paper I propose that thinking with, in and through the land of schooling is one way to account for the violences that adult humans have inflicted on the earth and specifically the lands of…

Westernization as a historical process of universalizing western cultural and societal norms has, in terms of global education, evolved into a narrative of competition, resource-hoarding, erasure, and general accumulation of capital by the few. Universities and colleges are hubs for the production and reproduction of ideologies and ways of knowing…

In this essay, I examine coloniality as a racializing force within international education curricula. I focus on the British-developed Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) curriculum, previously known as the Cambridge International Education (CIE) curriculum. Using the CAIE as a specific case, I discuss how international curricula…

This paper leans into alterlife (Murphy, 2017) and connectivity ontologies (Harrison, 2015) to consider the implications of more-than-witness(es/ing) (our term) on social studies education. Taking a narrative approach, we engage with three more-than-human bodies (e.g., Boulder, Forest, Document(s)) in an effort to expand how act(or/ion)s of…

The intersecting colonial systems of child welfare and education overdetermine experiences of educational exclusion of Indigenous children in Manitoba. A fictionalized case vignette is used to depict how settler colonialism, carcerality, and anti-Indigenous racism play out in the lives of students with child welfare involvement. Using critical…

This paper presents an autoethnographic account of teaching about the 2023 coronation of the United Kingdom's new king as part of ESL lessons in a German school. It argues for the need to practice a postcolonial approach to ELT, focusing specifically on the identity of a teacher from a former British colony. To that extent, the paper argues the…

In this polylog to the special issue on "The rise of Chinese language education policies in the oil-rich Arabian Gulf: New players, discourses and linguistic markets," three researchers with different personal and professional connections to the three languages 'at play' in the region -- English, Chinese, and Arabic -- offer their…