Accepting Educational Responsibility: The Roles of Indigenous Researchers in Combating Institutional Racism in Higher Education

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

The theme of the 2021 American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting focuses on “accepting educational responsibility”. More succinctly, it embodies the idea that “Education researchers are not merely scholars; we are also citizens of the places in which our scholarship is produced, disseminated, and implemented. Equity and justice in these places depend as much on our deep thinking as they do on what we do with what we know. Racism, xenophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and other manifestations of hate continually poison these places.” This session gathers together leading Indigenous researchers from universities in Hawaii and New Zealand in a conversation about the prevalence of institutional racism in higher education and how they are addressing this pandemic issue.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific

Chairs

• Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Massey University

• Tanya L.M. Samu, University of Auckland

Participants

• Kahele Dukelow, University of Hawai‘i Maui College

• S Kaleikoa Kaeo, University of Hawai‘i Maui College

• Margaret J. Maaka, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Kekailoa Perry, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Graham H. Smith, Massey University

• Linda T. Smith, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi

• Kerry Laiana Wong, University of Hawaii - Manoa