Co-Curricular-Making: “Rallying the World Around the Future of Education”

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 11:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Agency as decolonial praxis in curriculum

Abstract

A curricular project, Bringing the Salmon Home, reveals how the particulars of context provide the needed present terrain for decolonized curricular pathways, bringing the past and future continually to bear. The focus on knowledge of local Indigenous laws, customs, protocols and principles that define and inform rights and responsibilities to the land and to culture, access the needed co-curricular-making ways of being for educators and their students. Echoing the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (2022) mission, “Rallying the world around the future of education,” this context-based approach holds potential for transforming the educational landscape not only locally, but also as a guiding approach more broadly, orienting towards individual/collective growth and well-being, and away from predetermined control and competition.

Authors

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

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

• Danielle Lamb, University of British Columbia - Okanagan