Epistemological Intersections in Decolonial Education: Dialogue within and across Traditions

Multiple Presenter Session: Panel

Abstract

Decoloniality in education has been conceptualized from the standpoints of Latin American philosophy of liberation, Indigenous studies and settler colonial studies, and global feminist of color theory-building, among other traditions. Exploring intersections on this terrain, this panel considers the relation of institutionally embedded forms of knowing to decolonial epistemologies within educational spaces. Attention to the tension in these relationships has been forced by the current political context in Texas, and emerges across these papers in the form of challenges to the erasure of land-based epistemologies in the university, interrogation of the framing of curricular knowledge in legislation targeting teaching about race/racism, and investigation of the social practices that establish epistemological validity in schooling. Attending to distinct experiences while sharing a central concern with how knowing in education might be reimagined beyond coloniality, the presentations open a discussion that is increasingly urgent in the context of emerging forms of epistemological repression.

Sub Track

• AESA

Presenters

• Celine Norman, University of Texas at Austin

• Noah De Lissovoy, University of Texas at Austin

• Marial Quezada, The University of Texas at Austin

• Adam Martinez, Texas A&M - San Antonio