Valuing Search Within Research: The Potential of Practiced Reciprocity for Education’s Reparation and Renewal

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Disrupting Colonial Educational Spaces for Remedy and Repair (Table 12)

Abstract

Participants in a 5-year Partnership Project are pursuing co-curricular-making pathways, individually/collectively engaged in ongoing meaning-making. This curricular terrain acknowledges that the particulars of individuals and place provide the needed context for (un)decolonized and Indigenized co-curricular pathways. Participants include 100+ practicing and 140+ prospective educators with community partners from the local school district, local Indigenous community members, plus community cultural institutions. The documentation of concrete moments of educators’ increasing cognizance of the relational interdependency of seeing with acting in classrooms, reorients and furthers learners/learning. Educator modes of being with associated habits and practices emerge, revealing potential within the capacity of reciprocity for education’s reparation and renewal, alongside forming the necessary practice-ground for long-term investment in curricular (un)decolonization and Indigenization.

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