Learning in Lenapehoking: Beyond a Land Acknowledgment to Transformational Indigenous Praxis in Education (Pre Off-Site Visit Meeting)

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

This off-site visit wil start with a brief meeting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and then depart for the museum.

This session will meaningfully engage in unsettling thinking about Philadelphia (Lenapehoking). Frequently we learn whose Land/s we are on, and gain a measure of context from that small acknowledgement. This place based session highlights ways educators and researchers can take seriously the 2024 AERA call to “construct educational possibilities” in anti-colonial and unsettling ways through a place based offsite with a Lenape scholar and engagement with anti-colonial curricular work. Learning from and with the Indigenous People whose Land/s we learn on is important ongoing work for scholars concerned with the social context of education. meaningful engagement with Lenape history, current issues and sovereignty in a settler space that is typically contextualized by colonial figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and discussions of documents such as the Declaration of Independence. Engaging with Philadelphia as Lenapehoking, centers the Land in Indigenous context and helps us critically examine the spaces we are in and what they teach us when we take time to understand them in ways that unsettle. We will visit sites in Philadelphia and examine of treaties, geography, sovereignty and current issues in Lenapehoking to gain a deeper understanding of the ongoing impact of settler colonialism in what is now known as Philadelphia, and is still Lenapehoking (Land of the Lenape).

Attendees should expect to return to the Center by 4:00 pm.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Cosponsor

• Spotlight on Philadelphia and the Region

Visit Leaders

• David Vining, Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School

• Neal Paul Schick, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Deanne Green, Teachers College, Columbia University

Chair

• Rachel Talbert, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Joe Baker, Lenape Center