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What is education? Most publications that claim to be able to answer this question tend to cite a series of white European men who have taught at universities or continue to do so today. bildungsLab* challenges this taken-for-granted assumption and presents a manifesto—as the opening contribution to a multi-part series entitled resistance & desire—that seeks to inspire readers to connect education with lived experience.

Academics* and artists* of Color and/or with migration histories reflect on education from a wide range of perspectives: sometimes personal, sometimes theoretical, sometimes poetic, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious—but always precise and insightful. They call for a rethinking of Eurocentric humanist notions of education and for reflection on postcolonial education in a pluralistic society.

With contributions by María do Mar Castro Varela, Mai-Anh Boger, Lalitha Chamakalayil, Saphira Shure, Sabine Mohamed, Carolina Tamayo Rojas, Shadi Kooroshy, Samia Aden, Malika Mansouri, Trovania Delille, Sheila Ragunathan, Purnima Vater, Leila Haghighat, Thu Hoài Tran, Jamila al-Yousef, Natascha Khakpour, Karima Arezo Popal-Akhzarati, Gülden Ediger, Fallon Cabral, Narmada Saraswati, Aicha Diallo, Arzu Cicek, Saboura Naqshband and Meryem Choukri.