Decolonizing Educational Research Methodologies: What Does It Take and How Can We Do It?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The historical purpose of exploration is to colonize and exploit natural resources, including the human beings inhabiting those colonized lands, yet exploring is a common purpose that buttresses educational research questions, such as approaches to large-scale assessment instruments. Therefore, to solve this “problem of exploration” for educational research we must ask, “what is the relationship between exploring and decolonization?”. A panel of scholars will discuss this methodological “problem of exploration”. They will provide insight into how work benefits communities where research is being conducted; the importance of respect of those people and the view that they are research partners; relevancy as a guiding principle of culturally responsive research; and responsibility as key to adapting research to the community and historical context.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Measurement and Research Methodology

Chairs

• Venessa F. Manna, Educational Testing Services

• Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller, Southern Methodist University

• Raman K. Grover

Panelists

• Maria Elena Oliveri, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• David Sul, Sul & Associates International

• Shannon Leddy, University of British Columbia

• Pohai Kukea Shultz, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

• Alexandra E. Pavlakis, Southern Methodist University