The Needed Trust and Relationship-Building Ground for Curricular Decolonization and Indigenization

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Abstract

Why indigenize? What are the relationships to decolonizing and how do these transform the lived terms of teaching and learning? What are the significances for educators and their learners? Are there short and long-term lived consequences for extended communities? These are the kinds of questions participating educators have been attending to throughout a multi-year investment in co-curricular-making. Participating educators are taking up the challenges and opportunities these questions present. In doing so, practice-engaged efforts arise as a needed catalyst for long-term knowledge mobilization. This paper concretely explores the role and nature of such practice ground to facilitate scholarly interchange, collectively working the ideas, articulating shared understanding of the lived experiences, and forming the needed trust and relationship-building ground.

Authors

• William A. Cohen, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Danielle Lamb, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Jody Dlouhy-Nelson, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Desiree Marshall-Peer, Langara College

• Terry Lee Beaudry, Central Okanagan Public Schools