Attending to the Ethical Across México and the Mekong—Restor(y)ing Relations Towards Indigenous Futures in Learning, Interaction, and Design

• In Event: Presidential Highlighted Session: Comparative Indigenous education: Indigenous knowledge systems, research, and decolonial practices

Proposal

For many Indigenous people, our families and lands are our first teachers. While the extension of schooling worldwide is deemed important for development, schooling has largely suppressed the rich family-based knowledges that young people bring into classrooms, contributing to the debilitation of the intellectual and socio-ecological health of lands and human communities. This paper traces how educators at Sahasatsuksa, an urban Indigenous school in Thailand began building with the Tutoría education movement that originated in México. The authors illustrate how through trans-Indigenous participatory design research across the lands of Thailand and México, we designed pathways home from Sahasatsuksa school, demonstrating how everyday renewals of Indigenous futures unfold at the interplay of design and interaction. At its core, this presentation will highlight ethical openings that disrupt colonial logics implicit in global and state schooling, through a process we refer to as restor(y)ing relations towards more just and sustainable forms of living and learning.

Author

• * Meixi, University of Minnesota