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Cross-disciplinary, Pluriversal Speculations
Unschooled Futures
Cross-disciplinary, Pluriversal Speculations
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This book provokes conversations about a future where learning is not confined by the carceral logic of academic disciplinary boundaries and brick and mortar walls. From authoritarian control to surveillance, discipline, and the perpetuation of the ongoing occupation of Indigenous lands, schools are key players in maintaining the status quo of the late capitalist and neoliberal societies on the brink of extinction. The ostensibly decolonial and sovereign nature of political spaces within education, intended to foster a range of disruptive and engaging practices, has fallen short in cultivating adaptive pedagogies. Instead, this framework, characterized by an underlying individualistic and universalist essence, has contributed to the internal and external erosion of public education.
While commendable efforts to reform existing schools persist, this book challenges the very foundational assumptions of present-day schooling. It calls for an array of non-disciplined alternatives to traditional habits of learning and schooling-alternatives that liberate children of all backgrounds from the confines of compulsory colonial education. There is critique of present-day schooling, but also a commitment to constructive, creative alternatives, considering speculative, non- and trans-disciplinary perspectives on pluriversal learning. This collection promises to provoke conversations about a future where learning is not confined by the carceral logic of academic disciplinary boundaries and brick and mortar walls.
Table of Contents
1. A million ways to learn and be in the world, Adam Gaudry (University of Alberta, Canada) and Matt Hern (Solid State, Canada)
2. Education as Embassy: Pluriversal Pedagogies and Transknowledging, Lester-Irabinna Rigney (University of South Australia, Australia), Tyson Yunkaporta (Deakin University, Australia) and John Davis (Deakin University, Australia)
3. A school for the many ways of inhabiting: Educating pluriversal urban practitioners, Tomás Criado (Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
4. Student: an exploration into the seductive 'we' of learning, Adam Rudder (Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA)
5. Subjects as Effects of Affects: A Pedagogy of the Senses, Andrej Radman (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
6. Cultivating Nepantla: Learning to warrior-up in a place between worldviews, Daniel Gallardo (University of British Columbia, Canada)
7. Deep Play: Notes on Youth Baseball, Anthropology, and Learning as Investing, Suzanne Scheld (California State University, USA)
8. Speculative Provocations to Afrofuturism of Schooling and Learning, Lys Divine Ndemeye and Quentin VerCetty Lindsay (independent artists and designers)
9. Scenarios of technology enhancement, decolonial educational strategies and insurgent thinking, Marina Grzinic (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria)
101. Speculative and possible futures in postcolonial literature, Aparna Tar (York University, UK)
Conclusion
Index
Product details

Published | Mar 19 2026 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 240 |
ISBN | 9781350528604 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | Alternative | Education |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |