Decolonizing Literacies: Disrupting, Reclaiming, and Remembering Relationship in Literacy Education

This book explores how literacy has been used as a weapon and a means of settler colonialism, challenging colonized definitions of literacy and centering relationships as key to understanding. It proposes a unique approach to decolonizing understandings of literacy through disruption, reclamation, and remembering relationships, enacted through diverse chapter contributions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 27 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume delves into the profound ways in which literacy has been wielded as a tool of settler colonialism, challenging the very definitions of literacy that have been imposed upon colonized communities. It begins by confronting the multifaceted ways in which settler colonialism has utilized literacy and its associated definitions as a means of restricting participation in society. In response to the violent acts of extraction, displacement, and replacement perpetrated by settler colonialism upon land, resources, people, and understandings of literacy, the editors propose a groundbreaking approach to decolonizing our understanding of literacy through a triangulation of disruption, reclamation, and remembering relationships.

This transformative endeavor is enacted and explored through a diverse array of chapter contributions, presented in the form of captivating stories, poignant poems, artistic creations, theatrical performances, and thought-provoking essays. These diverse forms allow the authentic voices of the authors to shine through, creating a space for engagement and interpretation with diverse, racialized understandings of literacy.

By disrupting Eurocentric, colonized notions that narrowly define literacy as the mere reading and writing of the colonial word, this volume contributes to the vital movement toward decolonizing education. It holds significant interest for scholars, researchers, and educators passionate about literacy education, decolonizing education, anti-racist education, inclusive education, land-based literacy, and arts-based literacy.

Weight: 550g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032546728