ERIC Number: EJ1435098
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 37
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1011
Creating Thirdspace: Indigenous Learning Lab to Transform a School Discipline System
American Educational Research Journal, v61 n4 p842-878 2024
Racial disproportionality in school discipline is an enduring systemic problem. This study is based on a collaboration with 14 school stakeholders: American Indian students, parents, community members, and educators at a high school in a community-driven problem-solving process called Indigenous Learning Lab (ILL). ILL members addressed the root causes of the racialized school discipline and created a new school discipline system. Using critical geography and decolonizing methodology as the theoretical and analytical framework, this study aimed to unpack the emergence of Thirdspace -- a space of resistance, possibilities, and hopes -- in ILL to address enduring racial disproportionality. Members challenged race-neutrality of data sense-making, mapped out dystopia, revitalized American Indian epistemology, and mapped out a real utopian vision of schooling.
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Discipline Policy, American Indian Students, Disproportionate Representation, Parents, High School Teachers, High School Students, Community Involvement, Learning Laboratories, Indigenous Knowledge, Racial Factors, Student Attitudes, Resistance (Psychology), Expectation, American Indian Education, School Districts, Educational Change, School Community Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin
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