Decolonizing Schools: The Indigenous Takeover

Decolonizing education entails identifying how colonization has impacted education and working to unsettle colonial structures, systems, and dynamics in educational contexts. Social work is situated as a site for decolonizing education in response to the truth and reconciliation commission’s calls to action. This article illustrates the context and. As a supportive and decolonizing learning space, our indigenous pedagogical approach to talking circles draws on three main principles: Situated relatedness (johnston, 2018), respectful.

Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism,. In this article, we synthesize the literature on indigenous, decolonizing education leadership values and practices across national and international spaces that have.