Decolonizing Professional Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Professional learning structured to enable collaborative inquiry between educators and BIPOC community partners and researchers has the potential to foster culturally sustaining practices that broaden and decolonize understandings of student success, pedagogy, and educational leadership. With this symposium, we wish to extend knowledge sharing and spur new research and knowledge co-creation about and through professional learning networks to increase the uptake of equity-oriented educational change. This symposium brings together researchers to share their work regarding professional learning and professional learning networks that strive for pedagogical and structural transformation with equity-deserving communities. Researchers will present their papers for 15 minutes each. We will conclude with commentary from a discussant about implications for policy, practice, and research followed by dialogue with attendees.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Educational Change

Chair

• Ardavan Eizadirad, Wilfrid Laurier University

Papers

• Building Relationships and Decolonizing Possibilities Through Education Change Networks - Leyton Schnellert, University of British Columbia; Bonny Lynn Donovan, University of British Columbia - Okanagan; Sara Florence Davidson, Simon Fraser University

• Refusing Erasure: Black and Indigenous Women Educational Leaders Talk Back! - Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, University of San Francisco

• Addressing Truth and Then Reconciliation Education as Professional Learning - Lisa Howell, University of Ottawa; Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa

Discussant

• Vidya Shah, OISE/University of Toronto