Decolonize That! Podcasting a Graduate-Level Seminar About Decolonization in Higher Education

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 4:20 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Curriculum Making and Sensing Beyond Higher Ed Classrooms (Table 23)

Abstract

This paper highlights the tensions of decolonization, anticoloniality, and Indigenous education in the context of a graduate-level class called Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education. As the semester progressed, a question emerged continuously, “can decolonization occur in a place like higher education”? Guided by a sharing circle methodology, we deploy a podcast to describe our perspectives about decoloniality and what “decolonizing higher education curriculum” means to us. We deploy a podcast method to transgress how the academy categorizes and creates hierarchal divisions between knowledges. Therefore, a podcast allows for knowledge to be easily shared and creates an archive where others can engage, expand, and further think with our emergent ideas about decolonization within the context of higher education.

Authors

• Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University

• Marcellis Perkins, Texas Christian University

• Lea Lester, Texas Christian University

• Kelly Phommachanh, Texas Christian University

• Nicole K. Weinberg, Texas Christian University

• Blake Lentz, Texas Christian University

• Kelcia Righton, Texas Christian University

• Frederick Gooding, Texas Christian University

• Jessica Alvarez, Texas Christian University