Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts: Reflection, Pedagogy, and Activism for Change

This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic dynamics, shown here in various forms, including the global pandemic, divisive populist politics, displacement of refugees and the landless, race and gender injustices, and neoliberal policies that constrain educational and social possibilities. Grouped around reflection, educational practice, and social activism, the authors show how educators engage these precarious conditions as they work toward a more interconnected, humane, and just society.

This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in social foundations of education, multicultural and social justice education, educational policy, and international and comparative education, sociology and anthropology of education, and cultural studies within education, among other fields.

Karen Monkman is Professor Emerita of Education at DePaul University, USA.

Ann Frkovich is Associate Professor in the Department of Research at Concordia University, USA.

Amira Proweller is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Department of Teacher Education at DePaul University, USA.