ERIC Number: EJ1437250
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-3116
EISSN: EISSN-1464-5173
Indigenous Learning Lab as Prefigurative Political Action to Dismantle Settler-Colonial System of Exclusion
Dosun Ko; Aydin Bal; Aaron Bird Bear; Linda Orie; Dian Mawene
International Journal of Inclusive Education, v28 n11 p2642-2661 2024
American Indian students continue to experience marginalization in settler-colonial school systems in the United States. American Indian students receive disciplinary punishment more frequently and harshly than white peers. Overrepresentation of American Indian students in school discipline is a byproduct of a long history of oppressive settler-colonial schooling. To address racial disproportionality in school discipline, the Indigenous Learning Lab was enacted through building a university-school-family-community partnership at a rural high school. Learning Lab is a community-driven problem-solving process through which multiple school stakeholders take transformative actions, including identification of systemic challenges entrenched in the settler-colonial school system and design of a new, culturally responsive support system. White administrators and teachers, along with students, family, and community members from the local tribal nation, engaged in prefigurative political action as they participated in the collective design process of the new system. Prefiguration is a present embodiment of new social relations, allowing participants to try new decision-making structures that may lead to what can be considered possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to examine how school stakeholders exerted their collective agency to unpack systemic contradictions in the settler-colonial school system and design a new culturally responsive support system.
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Principals, Parents, Partnerships in Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Personnel, Indigenous Populations, Learning Laboratories, Rural Schools, Culturally Relevant Education, Discipline Policy, Formative Evaluation, Transformative Learning, Inclusion
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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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