Refusals of Erasure: Centering Indigenous Resurgence as Survivance

• In Event: Refusals of Erasure: Centering Indigenous Resurgence as Survivance in Teacher Education

Abstract

This invited Division K VP session aligns with AERA’s 2026 theme Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research. This panel will offer insights into the past-present-future continuum central to Indigenous knowledge systems, reminding us “that an alternative future is also determined by our understanding of our past” Estes (2019). Collectively, the panel will centre the words of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (2013) who reminds us, “It’s because we can imagine different futures that we can struggle against the present state of things” by mapping out genealogies of refusals, reminding us that the current struggle of erasure is deeply embedded in troubling histories, but more importantly Indigenous resurgence as survivance creates pathways towards Indigenous futures in teacher education.

Author

• Leilani Sabzalian, University of Oregon