Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration

Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration examines how colonialism has shaped migration and migrants’ transnational learning experiences. With the development of modern transportation and advanced communication technologies, migration has shifted from international to transnational, characterised by the multiple and circular migration across transnational spaces of migrants who maintain close contact with their country of origin.

The book interrogates the colonial assumptions and Eurocentric tendencies influencing the current ideological moorings of lifelong learning theories, policies, and practices in the age of transnational migration. It calls for an approach to lifelong learning that aims to decolonise the ideological underpinnings of colonial relations of rule, especially in terms of its racialised privileging of ‘whiteness’ and Eurocentrism as normative processes of knowledge accumulation. This volume cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Theorising decolonisation in lifelong learning and transnational migration

• Decolonising racism, sexism, and settler colonialism

• Decolonising knowledge production and recognition

• Decolonising the life course

• Decolonising lifelong learning policies

• Decolonising pedagogic and curricular approaches to lifelong learning

Overall, the chapters represent the collective efforts of the contributors in attempting to decolonise lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.

Shibao Guo is a professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada. He specialises in citizenship and immigration, adult and lifelong learning, and comparative and international education. He has numerous publications, including books, journal articles, and book chapters. Currently he serves as co-editor of Canadian Ethnic Studies.

Srabani Maitra is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research combines interdisciplinary theories and methodologies from sociology and education to focus on education/learning, workplace skill training, and transnational migration, as well as anti-racist and anti-colonial education.