Decolonizing Literacies

<p>This volume examines the ways in literacy has been used as a weapon and a means for settler colonialism challenging colonized definitions of literacy and centring relationships as key to broadening understandings. </p><p>It begins by confronting the multiple ways that settler colonialism has used literacy and definitions of literacy as a gatekeeper to participation in society. In response to settler colonialism’s violent acts of extraction displacement and replacement enacted upon the land the resources the people and understandings of literacy the editors propose a unique approach to decolonizing understandings of literacy through a triangulation of disruption reclamation and remembering relationships. This is enacted and explored through a range of diverse chapter contributions written in the form of stories poems artworks theatres and essays allowing the authentic voices of the authors to shine through and opening up the English Language Arts as a space for engagement and interpretation with diverse racialized understandings of literacy. </p><p>Disrupting Eurocentric colonized understandings that narrowly define literacy as reading and writing the colonial word and advancing the movement to decolonize education it will be of key interest to scholars researchers and educators with interest in literacy education decolonizing education anti-racist education inclusive education land-based literacy and arts-based literacy. </p>