The Palgrave Handbook on Critical Theories of Education

Ali A. Abdi is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. 

Greg William Misiaszek is Distinguished Professor at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Education after being an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education for 12 years. He holds the position of Associate Director at the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA. He is the Chief Editor of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Environmental Education (with Karen Malone); Executive Editor of the Teaching in Higher Education journal, and Bloomsbury Book Series Editor of Freire in Focus (with Carlos Alberto Torres). His work focuses on ecopedagogy, comparative/international studies, adult/higher education, socio-environmental justice, planetary sustainability, Freirean scholarship, anti-anthropocentrism, migration, technologies, (eco)linguistics, and Indigenous/Southern epistemological diversity through (post)critical theories of globalizations, citizenships, race, gender, and post-digitalism, among others. His latest solo-authored books include Ecopedagogy and the Global Environmental Citizen: Critical Issues, Trends, Challenges and Possibilities (2025, Routledge) and Freire and Environmentalism: Ecopedagogy (2023, Bloomsbury). Misiaszek holds a PhD in Comparative Education from UCLA, USA.