ERIC Number: EJ1420359
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1356-2517
EISSN: EISSN-1470-1294
Engaging Decolonization: Lessons toward a Theory of Change for Transforming Practice
Chanelle Wilson
Teaching in Higher Education, v29 n4 p1042-1057 2024
Enlightened by a student teaching presentation in a foundational educational studies course, I became committed to recognizing and unlearning practices of colonialism and oppression in my classrooms and teaching practice. Using critical autoethnography as the mode of inquiry, and drawing relationships between the Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture and the Keele University Principles for Decolonizing the Curriculum, I explored the research question: How can a decolonial frame inform a transformational theory of change in educational practice? I argue this change occurring simultaneously, among and between arenas: conceptual, organizational, curricular, and pedagogical. I find that decolonizing practices can be relevantly enacted by acknowledging the dispossession of power from marginalized groups, addressing those power dynamics, and dismantling the white supremacy that will continue to be perpetuated without explicit resistance. This resource has decolonial implications for university educators in a variety of fields who wish to consider and pursue transformation.
Descriptors: Decolonization, Racism, College Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Power Structure, Resistance (Psychology), Whites
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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