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Dr. Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar's Outputs (17)

Decolonizing Research in Comparative and International Education: Promises and Perils (2025)
Book Chapter
jules, T., & Mohamed Anuar, A. (in press). Decolonizing Research in Comparative and International Education: Promises and Perils. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education (70-88). Bloomsbury Publishing

Decolonizing research in Comparative and International Education (CIE) is an ongoing project that entails interrogating the legacies of colonialism in the process of knowledge production, and the associated political and material redresses in terms o... Read More about Decolonizing Research in Comparative and International Education: Promises and Perils.

Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education (2024)
Journal Article
Anuar, A. M., & Mun, O. (2024). Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2366916

What ethical and political considerations does zine-making raise in teaching and learning across knowledge systems and artful expression? This question guides the critical dialogue about a research project on teaching sustainability through tradition... Read More about Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education.

Instances of dis/juncture: STEM education and young people’s aspirations for development in the Malaysian luar bandar (2023)
Journal Article
Anuar, A. M., & Anuar, A. (2023). Instances of dis/juncture: STEM education and young people’s aspirations for development in the Malaysian luar bandar. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2023.2254210

This article foregrounds young people’s aspirations from one secondary school in the Malaysian luar bandar (literally meaning 'outside of the city' in Bahasa Melayu) as they encounter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education,... Read More about Instances of dis/juncture: STEM education and young people’s aspirations for development in the Malaysian luar bandar.

Letters on Suspension (2022)
Book Chapter
Lim, E., & Anuar, A. M. (2022). Letters on Suspension. In International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific (191-200). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3675-3_14

I often think about my last flight back to Boston from Singapore in Jan 2020. Six months before, I visited Chicago in August, and Houston in September. Despite having classes and a teaching assistantship, I flew to India to attend my friend’s wedding... Read More about Letters on Suspension.

(Re)territorializing the Field of Comparative and International Education in Malaysia: Adventures in Cartography through the Fisher, the Weaver, and the Shadow-Puppeteer (2022)
Book Chapter
Mohamed Anuar, A., & Balakrishnan, P. (2022). (Re)territorializing the Field of Comparative and International Education in Malaysia: Adventures in Cartography through the Fisher, the Weaver, and the Shadow-Puppeteer. In Comparative and International Education: (Re)Assembled Examining a Scholarly Field through an Assemblage Theory Lens (113-126). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350286856.ch-007

The building “bricks” of informal STEM education: Narratives of a participatory project on aspirations for development in rural Malaysia (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anuar, A. (2021, May). The building “bricks” of informal STEM education: Narratives of a participatory project on aspirations for development in rural Malaysia. Presented at 2021 Yidan Prize Doctoral Conference, Virtual, Hong Kong Time (GMT+8)

In the mainstream, national development is often defined in terms of economic growth that privileges modernity, urbanization and scientific expertise. The promise of science, technology and innovation in contributing to development is reified through... Read More about The building “bricks” of informal STEM education: Narratives of a participatory project on aspirations for development in rural Malaysia.

Positionality, power and the postcolonial context (2021)
Book Chapter
Anuar, A. M. (2021). Positionality, power and the postcolonial context. In Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research. (1). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003123613-4

Through a combination of reflections, fieldnotes and transcripts of semi-structured interviews with elite informants, this chapter presents personal meditations on positionality and strategic navigation of power relations whilst researching Malaysia'... Read More about Positionality, power and the postcolonial context.

Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research (2021)
Book Chapter
Anuar, A. M. (2021). Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research. In Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research (47-61). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003123613-4

Through a combination of reflections, fieldnotes and transcripts of semi-structured interviews with elite informants, this chapter presents personal meditations on positionality and strategic navigation of power relations whilst researching Malaysia'... Read More about Positionality, power and the postcolonial context: Meditations on identity, access and relations in education policy research.

The role of non-state providers in informal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education: a Malaysian perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Mohamed Anuar, A., & Chankseliani, M. (2023). The role of non-state providers in informal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education: a Malaysian perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 43(1), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2021.1908227

The role of non-state providers in the provision of education has been expanding globally. However, there is a dearth of literature on the role of non-state providers in informal education, especially when delivered alongside formal education in scho... Read More about The role of non-state providers in informal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education: a Malaysian perspective.

Post-Colonialism in Comparative and International Education (2021)
Book Chapter
Anuar, A. M., Habibi, A., & Mun, O. (2021). Post-Colonialism in Comparative and International Education. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International education (109-128). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350078789.ch-006

Post-colonialism denotes a temporal and emancipatory critique of colonialism. In this chapter, we first provide an overview of the key aspects of post-colonialism—power and knowledge production, hybridity, positionality, and historical analysis—by re... Read More about Post-Colonialism in Comparative and International Education.