Decolonial Underground Pedagogy
Unschooling and Subcultural Learning for Peace and Human Rights

By (author) Noah Romero

ISBN13: 9781350376168

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 19/03/2026

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Description
This book explores how minority-led skateboarding, punk rock, and unschooling communities engage in collective efforts to humanize education and construct kinder social frameworks. Noah Romero examines the roles of informal and community-embedded learning in actualizing transformative education and shows how decolonizing education can take place outside of school settings. Grounded in the author’s own experience in minority-led Filipino subcultures, the book introduces a conceptual framework of subcultural learning and decolonizing education centred on the Philippines and its diaspora in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Romero argues that educational paradigms with peace, human rights, multiculturalism, social justice, and decolonization at the centre can extend beyond the classroom, curriculum, and teaching and into communities. By showing how minoritized people are redefining identity and knowledge through embodied community-responsive pedagogies, the book contributes to wider debates on Indigeneity, gender justice, human rights, peace studies, and decolonizing education.
Introduction Part I: Punk Rock Pedagogy 1. Philippine Becoming and Punk Rock Pedagogy 2. Defending Free Speech Through Punk Rock Pedagogy Part II: Skate Pedagogy 3. Decolonizing Skate Pedagogy Part III: Critical Unschooling 4. Decolonial Healing Through Unschooling Conclusion References Index
  • Education
  • Philosophy & theory of education
  • Moral & social purpose of education
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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