1st Edition
Neurodecolonisation in the Classroom Roxana Ng and Qigong as Embodied Pedagogy
By Remy Y.S. Low
Copyright 2026
156 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
156 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book extends on the scholarship on decolonising higher education by focusing on classroom pedagogies that can transform students’ embodied affects and habits as conditioned by coloniality.
It does so by offering a historical case study of how one exemplary educator – Canadian activist and scholar Roxana Chu-Yee Ng (1951–2013) – drew on traditional Chinese medicine philosophy and Qigong... Read more
Introduction: “A different world apart from the one we live in” 1. “Stored in the Body”: Stress and the settler colonial structure 2. “Disrupt common sense ideas and practices”: Qigong against Cartesian dualism in higher education 3. “Change both ourselves and society”: Neurodecolonisation through embodied pedagogy 4. “A transformation of their own thinking, knowing and living”: Roxana Ng’s pedagogical legacy
Biography
Remy Y.S. Low is Senior Lecturer in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia.
