A Multiyear, Community-Based Investment: Together We Learn—Co-Curricular-Making’s (Un)Decolonizing and Indigenizing Lessons

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 3:35 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Prioritizing Equity in Classrooms, Schools, Districts, and Communities to Improve How Students Learn (Table 4)

Abstract

A five-year research project seeks to honour Indigenous connections to land, culture, and the relational self, articulating the nature and roles of reciprocal, un/decolonized curricular pathways for educators and their students to enhance understandings of local Indigenous culture and protocols and to mobilize place and land-based ways of knowing and being. The How? A multi-year and community-based investment, involving Elders and local Indigenous communities with the school district, community organizations, and academic scholars, coming together in ceremony and through continued conversations to re-imagine co-curricular making. The Results? In year four of this investment, testimonies/actions reflect significant shifts in thinking, (un)learning, and new ways of being, resulting in equity work, Indigenous student empowerment, and reflecting a deeper commitment to reconciliation.

Authors

• Terry Lee Beaudry, Central Okanagan Public Schools

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

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