Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

Through a range of unconventional genres, representations of data, and dialogic, reflective narratives alongside more traditional academic genres, this book engages with contexts of decoloniality and border thinking in the Global South. It addresses processes of knowledge production and participation in the highly divided and unequal schooling and higher education system in South Africa, and highlights the consequences of the monolingual myth in post-colonial education, demonstrating opportunities for learning provided by translanguaging.  It explores both embodied, multimodal and multilingual instances of knowledge-making in teaching and teacher education that take place outside but alongside formal classroom, lecture and seminar modes, and the positionality and learning experiences of teacher educators in science, literacy and language across the curriculum. The book is not only transdisciplinary but also captures the learning that takes place beyond the borders of disciplines and formal classroom spaces.

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Prologue

Chapter 1. Carolyn McKinney and Pam Christie: Introduction: Conversations with Teacher Educators in Coloniality   

Part 1: De/coloniality in Schooling 

Harry Garuba: Leaving Home at 10 

Chapter 2. Xolisa Guzula: De/coloniality in South African Language in Education Policy: Resisting the Marginalisation of African Language Speaking Children  

Chapter 3. Pinky Makoe: Navigating Hegemonic Knowledge and Ideologies at School: Children’s Oral Storytelling as Acts of Agency and Positioning

Chapter 4. Robyn Tyler: Identity Meshing in Learning Science Bilingually: Tales of a 'Coconuty Nerd'

Part 2: Delinking from Coloniality in Teacher Education  

Chapter 5. Kate Angier, Carolyn McKinney and Catherine Kell: Visual Essay: Teaching and Learning beyond the Classroom: What Can We Learn from Participating in Struggle with our Students?  

Chapter 6. Annemarie Hattingh: Learning Science from umaGogo: The Value of Teaching Practice in Semi-rural School Contexts  

Chapter 7. Rochelle Kapp: Engaging Deficit: Pre-service Teachers’ Reflections on Negotiation of Working-class Schools  

Chapter 8. Soraya Abdulatief: Thirdspace Thinking: Expanding the Paradigm of Academic Literacies to Reposition Multilingual Pre-service Science Teachers 

Chapter 9. Carolyn McKinney: Delinking from Coloniality and Increasing Participation in Early Literacy Teacher Education

Chapter 10. Catherine Kell in conversation with Xolisa Guzula and Carolyn McKinney: Reinventing Literacy: Literacy Teacher Education in Contexts of Coloniality

Part 3: Conversations with Teacher Educators in Brazil, Canada and Chile

Chapter 11. Cloris Porto Torquato: Teacher Education amid Centralising/Colonial and Decentralising/Decolonial Forces  

Chapter 12. Vanessa Andreotti and Sharon Stein: Education for Depth: An Invitation to Engage with the Complexities and Challenges of Decolonizing Work 

Chapter 13. Natalia Ávila Reyes: Transnational Connections in the Global South: A Reflection on this Book’s Reception

Index