"I Wish I Knew About This in School": An Inquiry Framework for Decolonizing the Mind

• In Event: Supporting Indigenous Education and Centering Anticolonial Frameworks Across Teacher Education

Abstract

This study serves to provide a Colonial Typology framework (CTF) for perceiving the many ways that colonization functions, and to examine how the use of CTF can impact their perceptions of colonization. The researchers conducted an inquiry project with teachers, preservice teachers, and students. The researchers introduced CTF and drew from a large variety of data sources including participants’ initial notions about history and cultural memory, observations during the inquiry project, and their reactions and interactions with CTF. Initial perceptions and reactions to CTF reveal that both students and educators were better able to problematize settler colonialism. And introducing Indigenous perspectives led preservice teachers and current educators to challenge perceptions of their relationships to each other and the environment.

Authors

• Kelsey Leigh Stokes, Baylor University

• Kevin R. Magill, Baylor University