Background: Debates Colonialism, global capitalism, environmental destruction and destruction of myriad cultures are intimately intertwined. They have impacted our sense of what it means to be human (and who is fully human) and our social systems, including education. Therefore, in working on the decolonisation project to decolonise education, our attention must be multi-focused and recover indigenous cultures and heal the damage, addressing capitalism and emphasising the environment as a source of knowledge.