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Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis (2023)
Book Chapter

The last decade has seen distinct ideological shifts in particular geopolitical contexts and in global/local relations across the globe, with increasing instability witnessed in social, political, ecological, material, and economic systems. Efforts t... Read More about Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis.

Understanding Resilience Capitals, Agency and Habitus in Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Floods and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa (2023)
Other

A significant percentage of the urban population in most low- and middle-income countries live in informal settlements. Due to poor quality housing, dense settlement patterns and lack of risk reducing infrastructure, informal settlements are least pr... Read More about Understanding Resilience Capitals, Agency and Habitus in Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Floods and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa.

‘It Means We are Not Safe’: Understanding and Learning from Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Flood and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa (2022)
Working Paper

As climate change-related extreme weather events such as flooding and droughts increase in frequency and severity in most cities worldwide, there is a need to deepen understanding of disaster risks and adaptive capacities. A significant percentage of... Read More about ‘It Means We are Not Safe’: Understanding and Learning from Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Flood and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa.

Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality (2022)
Journal Article

Education commonly is positioned as central to developing citizens who can address so-called global challenges. Responses are identifiable in global citizenship education, which may recruit mathematics into interdisciplinary relationships, and within... Read More about Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality.

Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. (2021)
Journal Article

'Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was to be both... Read More about Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures..

Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities (2017)
Journal Article

This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation documents at... Read More about Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities.

Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally (2017)
Journal Article

Mathematics education has been notoriously slow at interpreting inclusion in ways that are not divisive. Dominant views of educational inclusion in school mathematics classrooms have been shaped by social constructions of ability. These particularly... Read More about Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally.

Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (2017)
Book Chapter

Through a critical examination of Scottish curricular policies and practices, this chapter addresses the ways in which nationalist popul(ar)ism assembles a range of identities, discourses and representations of the Scottish nation. It argues that the... Read More about Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence.

Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis (2017)
Journal Article

More and more, standardized, efficiencies-based, and surveillance-driven modus operandi are prescriptively defining the interests of the individual and collective in terms of market-driven imperatives in consonance with the demands of the nation stat... Read More about Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis.