Teacher Work Against Settler Futurities: A Narrative Inquiry Into the Agency of Colonialism

• In Event: Stories That Challenge Whiteness and Discrimination(s)

Abstract

This paper examines an episode of teaching in which the inclusion of content about Indigenous history, contemporary presence, and culture in a high school lesson triggered significant social and material resistance from local community members, and this in turn triggered a repressive response by the school administrators. It presents a narrative inquiry into an Indigenous teacher’s experience navigating this difficult, but not uncommon, situation. Drawing on the personal experiences of the lead author and a variety of conceptual resources, this paper offers both an illustration and a theorization of what substantively teaching against the grain of constantly evolving immersive settler futurities entails.

Authors

• Sage Hatch, University of Oregon
  Presenting Author

• Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon
  Presenting Author