Education and Decolonial Futures in the Philippines
Subtitle
Perspectives for Educators and Practitioners
This book is a unique and provocative study that weaves personal and historical narratives, diverse theoretical frameworks, and futures thinking. Using critical bricolage methodology and the Indigenous method of pakikipagkuwentuhan (storytelling), Rodriguez-Fransen amplifies the voices of Filipina educators as they interrogate and re-conceptualize colonial mentality as a systemic rather than an individual problem, and bridges the gap between educational theory and practice by creating new teaching and research tools, for scholars and practitioners in various sectors around the world: the Decolonial Portals and Decolonial Design Futures frameworks. This book takes readers on a journey through time, highlighting the interconnectedness and fluidity of past, present, and future stories of our world; it encourages all of us to recognize colonial mentality as a global problem, and calls for transdisciplinary, cross-sector, and cross-country collaborations in order to decolonize education and our futures.
Bio
Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen is Assistant Research Professor, Principled Innovation at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She contributes to building ASU’s institutional infrastructure and capacity to enable futures thinking, engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration that center Principled Innovation in large-scale research, projects and initiatives. Her TED Talk, “Unlocking Indigenous knowledge: A new path for education” is inspired by her book. Learn more by visiting https://beafuturist.com/
Praise for this book
Bea Rodriguez-Fransen astutely documents and analyzes the roots and legacies of colonial mentality and offers oppositional strategies through narrative bricolage and decolonial design futures. Drawing from Indigenous onto-epistemologies and methodologies, she provides new conceptual tools and approaches to unshackle and liberate the mindsets, behaviors, and attitudes of racialized, postcolonial, and diasporic subjects. Education and Decolonial Futures in the Philippines is a must-read for all of us committed to reimagining and pursuing global justice and transformation.
Roland Sintos Coloma, PhD Professor, Teacher Education, Wayne State University
A powerful text - well worth reading, as it deconstructs and reconstructs the future. I truly enjoyed the interweaving of the personal with analytic.
Sohail Inayatullah, PhD UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies. IIUM. Professor, Tamkang University. Editor, the Journal of Futures Studies
