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With the limited availability of related foci in the area of critical educational studies, Critical Theorizations of Education is timely in both its topical relevance and time-space-themed discursive interventions. With its overall scope, constructed as both a counter-and-forward looking critical reflections and analysis of some of the most salient and contemporaneously active platforms of education, it prospectively and relatively comprehensively expands on dynamically intersecting learning and teaching contexts and relationships. As such, the volume’s contents by both established and emerging scholars, selectively locate the interplays of knowledge, learning and attendant power relations, which either transform or reproduce the status quo. Contributors are: Levonne Abshire, Claire Alkouatli, David Anderson, Neda Asadi, N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Gulbahar Beckett, José Cossa, Ratna Ghosh, Shibao Guo, Yan Guo, Carl E. James, Dip Kapoor, Festus Kelonye Beru, Ginette Lafreniere, Qing Li, Oliver Masakure, Magnus Mfoafo-M'Carthy, Greg William Misiaszek, Dolana Mogadime, Samson Nashon, Selline Ooko, Bathseba Opini, Amy Parent, Thashika Pillay, Edward Shizha, Kimberley Tavares, Alison Taylor, and Stacey Wilson-Forsberg.

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Critical Theorizations of Education, is an exciting new collection of critical essays by a group of distinguished scholars edited by Ali A. Abdi, that focuses on political economy, racial and environmental justice, disability and educational inequalities, feminist and gender identity, Islamic and indigenous pedagogy. As Abdi suggests the theorizations of this collection represent the shift from western-centric and mono-epistemic notions of learning that have dominated education in the post-war years. For this reason alone the collection deserves wide readership. - Michael A. Peters, Distinguished Professor of Education, Beijing Normal University, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois

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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).

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