ERIC Number: EJ1452109
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 27
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Black and Indigenous Freedom Dreaming as Critical Educational Policy Praxis
Education Policy Analysis Archives, v32 n73 2024
This article centers on freedom dreaming as a critical approach to educational policy studies. I examined how one Black and Indigenous American educator activist collective's conversations linked freedom dreaming to critical praxis. Educational policy studies would benefit from centering on Black and Indigenous knowledges especially if scholars aim to dismantle interlocking systems of oppression. I used a multiple-conversation and relational design to explore the concept of freedom dreaming within and between Black and Indigenous educator activist's commonalities, tensions, affirmations, and extensions. The findings of the study reveal three key praxis examples: protection, connection, and sustainment. "Protection" praxis represents an insularly space for individuals to express their experiences and resist oppression, leading to collective healing. "Connection" praxis highlights the acts of freedom dreaming in building linkages between and among policy actors, their ancestors, and younger generations. "Sustainment" praxis emphasizes how freedom dreaming energizes the work of educational justice movements, promoting coalition-building and intergenerational invitation. This study's knowledge co-creation implicates shifting the fulcrum towards Black and Indigenous conceptualizations of practicality and illuminating power maldistribution. To conclude, I offer a "freedom dreaming praxis manifesto" to render knowledge co-creation answerable to my comrades and similarly-situated collectives.
Descriptors: African American Culture, African American Teachers, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Personnel, Activism, Social Action, Social Justice, Collaborative Writing, Educational Policy, Freedom, Self Determination, Praxis, Group Unity, Group Discussion, Interpersonal Relationship, Intergenerational Programs, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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