Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Crisis of the Paradigm of Modernity and Post-Modern Science -- The Sociology of Absences and the Sociology of Emergences -- Education, Democratic Subjectivities Formation, and Social Democracy -- Conclusion.

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This book examines the work of the leading critical and decolonial intellectual Boaventura de Sousa Santos and its impact on education in general, and curriculum in particular. The volume brings to the table crucial itinerant theoretical rivers of thought in order to examine and understand the crises of modernity and their consequences. The author insightfully articulates Sousa Santos’ major arguments—‘prudent knowledge’, ‘decent life’, ‘sociology of absences’, and ‘epistemicide’, among others—to unpack some of the major issues facing the contemporary critical terrain. In so doing, she examines how Sousa Santos retools the critical ‘emancipatory educational project’ towards a more just and participatory democratic society.