Grounding Red Pedagogy: Decentering Settler Logics in Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In 2004 Sandy Grande published the groundbreaking text Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought. Grande’s work disrupts the settler foundations of both school and society by centering Indigenous knowledge within critical theory, while refusing settler logics of geopolitical identity-based research about the Other. This session continues the work of unsettling the settler foundations in education by bringing together scholars from across disciplinary boundaries and social identity backgrounds who take up respond to Grande’s call in Red Pedagogy to reimagine a hopeful pedagogy, school spaces, and critical research grounded in Indigenous epistemic frameworks rather than capitalist settler-logics. The session includes authors who have written in critical (and generative!) response to Red Pedagogy and its implications.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chairs

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

• Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Speakers

• Sandy Grande, Connecticut College

• Lisa (Leigh) Patel, Boston College

• Malia Villegas, National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center

• Mary Hermes, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Sweeney Windchief, Montana State University

• Jeremy Garcia, University of Arizona

• Timothy Jose San Pedro, The Ohio State University

Discussants

• Linda T. Smith, The University of Waikato

• Alex Wilson, University of Saskatchewan