Resources

Foundational decolonial feminist essay that theorizes how modern colonialism produced a racialised, hierarchical gender system.

Analyzes how examples and tasks in high school statistics textbooks represent gender, sex, and sexuality, showing how they reproduce binary and heteronormative norms.

Explains how Physical and Health Education curricula often assume heterosexual and cisgender norms and offers strategies for more inclusive practice.

Open-access content analysis of Dutch secondary school textbooks that documents systematic gender bias and heteronormativity in school materials.

Short explainer on “hetcisnorms” and how assumptions of heterosexuality and cisgender identity shape everyday life and education.

Edited volume offering theory, reflections, and classroom activities for building LGBTQ+ allyship in English language teaching.

Documentary on the coerced sterilization of Mexican-American women in Los Angeles, exposing racialized reproductive control and resistance.

Introduces an interactive documentary and audio project sharing testimonies of people affected by forced sterilisation programmes in Peru.

Explores how women, especially in Latin America, lead struggles against extractivist projects and link gender justice with environmental justice.

Large-scale automated text analysis of school textbooks from 34 countries, documenting systematic underrepresentation and stereotyping of women and girls.

Video explaining research on gender inequality among authors in books and what this means for whose knowledge is centered.

Qualitative study of primary school boys in South Africa that examines how bullying, power, and masculinity are negotiated in everyday school life.

Explores how boys construct masculinity around protection and defence in a violent context, and how this can draw them into violent practices they may resist.

UN toolkit introducing intersectionality as a human-rights-based approach and offering practical tools for inclusive policy and programme design.

Proposes a decolonial, participatory approach to teaching intersectionality that links classroom learning with social action.

Learning module introducing the history of Two-Spirit peoples in Indigenous societies, the impacts of colonialism on gender and sexuality, and links to reconciliation.

Grade 12 lesson where students research real-life scenarios to understand minors’ reproductive rights and access to sexual and reproductive health services.

BBC short exploring how colonialism suppressed long-standing gender-fluid traditions in one culture, challenging Western binary ideas about gender.

Teacher guide offering background on Two-Spirit identities and practical strategies to make school environments safer and more affirming for Two-Spirit youth.

Short video for educators sharing three concrete steps to help gender-expansive students feel seen, respected, and included.

TEDx talk by Rachel Bailey Jones outlining entry-level and advanced practices for building gender-inclusive classrooms.

Practice brief with concrete strategies for presenting gender, sex, and sexuality in biology in ways that support belonging for gender-diverse students.

NCTE position statement outlining principles for gender-fair, nonbinary-inclusive language in teaching, curriculum, and professional communication.

District guidance to support educators in using gender-inclusive, bias-free language with students, families, and colleagues.

Scholarly article using anticolonial feminism to analyze how white settler colonial discourses shape school curricula and how educators can work to disrupt them.

English Journal article where queer and trans educator-scholars of color use queer of color critique to imagine more liberatory literacy teaching for queer and trans youth of color.

Interview-style video with Alok Vaid-Menon reflecting on gender fluidity, violence, and self-determination beyond the gender binary.

Short classroom video where children meet professionals whose jobs challenge their assumptions about which genders can do which kinds of work.

Open-access book that introduces Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy as a humanizing, decolonial approach to teaching controversial issues in diverse educational settings.

Short film introducing Paulo Freire’s life, his critique of the “banking” model of education, and his vision of critical pedagogy as a tool for liberation.

Three-minute explainer of Freire’s banking model of education and how dialogic, problem-posing teaching can challenge oppressive schooling.

Animated overview of project-based learning as a student-centered, real-world approach that rethinks assessment, knowledge, and classroom roles.

Practitioner-oriented guide from Imagine If that frames PBL as transformative school change grounded in authentic, equitable, student-owned projects.

Practical racial justice guide that helps educators create brave, structured spaces to talk about race, examine bias, and connect classroom practice to broader struggles for equity.

Practical toolkit of participatory action research tools that centre children’s and young people’s knowledges in identifying problems, analysing root causes and planning collective action.

Auto-ethnographic article that develops synchronous collective writing as a feminist method for deep reflexivity, solidarity and resistance to neoliberal, competitive academic cultures.

Short CAST video introducing Universal Design for Learning and its three core principles of Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression.

Official CAST guidelines that translate the UDL framework into concrete checkpoints to design flexible, inclusive learning environments.

Plain-language overview of Universal Design for Learning for educators, explaining the framework, core principles, and classroom examples.

Scholarly chapter that applies UDL to redesign higher education practices so they better include and support Indigenous students.

Short talk in which Robin DiAngelo unpacks how white people are socialized into privilege and invites viewers to critically reflect on their own participation in systemic racism.

Short video resource (user-selected) that can be used to prompt reflection and discussion about one’s own position, privilege and responsibility in relation to social injustice.

Website of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective with zines, experiments and tools that invite deep self-reflection on complicity, harm and responsibility in decolonial work.

Reflective essay that explores the impossibilities and contradictions of decolonization under colonial conditions, encouraging educators to sit with discomfort, limits and ongoing failure.

Animated explainer that clarifies how racism operates systemically rather than only through individual prejudice, supporting reflection on how structures and everyday practices are entangled.

Documentary segment following Australian students in a programme that measures and challenges their racial bias, offering a model for reflective anti-racist practice in classrooms.

Clip showing how “colorblind” approaches in schools can conceal bias and harm students of colour, prompting educators to examine their own assumptions about neutrality and fairness.

Video explainer in which Robin DiAngelo discusses white fragility and how defensive reactions to conversations about race sustain systemic racism, inviting white viewers into self-examination.

Curated list of articles, tools, discussion guides and media by Robin DiAngelo designed to support white people and educators in sustained reflection on whiteness and racism.

Podcast episode that continues a conversation with Robin DiAngelo about white fragility and classroom practice, modelling how white educators can interrogate their own defensiveness.

First part of a podcast dialogue on white fragility that invites teachers to reflect on how their racial identities and assumptions shape classroom interactions and relationships.

Short teaching guide that explains implicit bias and offers strategies for instructors to recognize and mitigate their own unconscious biases in learning environments.

Online testing platform where users can take Implicit Association Tests (IATs) to explore their unconscious attitudes towards different social groups and reflect on hidden bias.

Social experiment in which participants physically step forward or back based on their life experiences, making visible how race and privilege shape opportunity and prompting personal reflection.

Short anti-racism film following a young person experiencing racist bullying, designed to spark reflection on bystander responses and our own responsibilities in confronting racism.

Practitioner-facing article that explains stereotypes, prejudice and hidden bias and links to Project Implicit tests, encouraging educators to examine their own unconscious attitudes.

Academic article introducing “justice-centered reflective practice” as a way for teacher educators to critically examine their own identities, practices and complicity while working toward equity.

Widely used handout that names everyday organisational habits—like perfectionism, defensiveness and sense of urgency—as features of white supremacy culture and offers concrete antidotes for transforming practice.

Research article introducing the Epistemic Reflexivity Survey for Teacher Educators and showing how critical, justice-oriented epistemic aims shape pedagogy for diversity in teacher education.

Theoretical chapter by Margaret Archer arguing for reflexivity as a relational, collective practice, offering a lens for rethinking agency, subjectivity and change in educational spaces.