Overview

This open access book presents a collection of conversations with educators and activists from around the world, who are engaged with practicing and thinking about different forms of radical or alternative education for social change, and who are working in grassroots education spaces, beyond formal schooling and universities. This includes educators working in the areas of community, worker, indigenous, environmental, feminist, anti-colonial, agricultural, liberation, theatre and arts education in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. By bringing together these different perspectives, the book helps to broaden our thinking about what radical education could and should look like in the world today. The book includes an introductory overview of radical education and education in nonformal, community and grassroots contexts; as well as brief introductions to each conversation that introduces the speaker, their work, organization and context, and situates the speaker within a particular approach to radical education. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London.

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Author:   Prof Mayssoun Sukarieh ,  Prof Stuart Tannock
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350583610

ISBN 10:   1350583618
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 April 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Consciousness + Commitment = Change: An Interview with Greg Asbed (Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Florida, USA) 2. Title TBC, An Interview with Julian Boal (Escola de Teatro Popular, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 3. From Alternative Education to Unlearning: An Interview with Gustavo Esteva (Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca, Mexico) 4. Decolonizing Education, A View from Palestine: An Interview with Munir Fasheh (Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestine) 5. Declaration of Decolonizing Education: An Interview with Manish Jain (Swaraj University, Udaipur, India) 6. Title TBC: An Interview with Alexia Leclerq (People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources, East Austin, USA) 7. Title TBC: An Interview with Chukki Nanjundaswamy (Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre, Karnataka, India) 8. Learning to Leave, Leaving to Learn: An Interview with Kelly Teamey (Ecoversities Alliance, Hawaii, USA) 9. Title TBC: An Interview with Coumba Toure (Invisible Giants and TrustAfrica, Dakar, Senegal) 10. From People’s Education to Pedagogies of Possibility: An Interview with Salim Vally (Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Johannesburg, South Africa) 11. Coming to Highlander: An Interview with Susan Williams (Highlander Research and Education Center, Tennessee, USA) Conclusion References Index

Reviews

Radical Educators in Grassroots Contexts is a collection of engaging and inspiring interviews with radical educators who respond to the harsh economic, political, cultural and environmental conditions in the current neo-liberal context where fascism and global capitalism pose new threats to peoples and the earth. It illustrates how new meanings of radical education can be harnessed in alternative education initiatives to challenge oppressive structures as formal education largely serves the interests of dominant ideologies. Radical education is a critical intervention that invites us to continue reflecting on the way we learn and teach and to deepen our commitment to social change. -- Salma Ismail, Emeritus Associate Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa Radical Educators in Grassroots Contexts provides a series of powerful accounts from education activists from across the globe who demonstrate that education matters for a socially just world. And that that education might best be served outside of formal schooling. -- Martin Mill, Professor of Education, QUT, Australia This book shows that there are always alternatives, even to the alternative. It constitutes both an act of awareness – of radical education initiatives and fascinating people – and a call to transform our own contexts, towards the creation of a better (meaning more just) world. -- José Pedro Amorim, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal

Author Information

Mayssoun Sukarieh is Reader in Middle Eastern Studies at King’s College London, UK. Stuart Tannock is Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

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