Education Studies 244 - Indigenous and Decolonial Approaches to Education

EDST 244/AMST 244: This Native American and Indigenous Studies foundation course will introduce students to the critical study of education through the historical examination of colonial schooling, as well as Indigenous efforts to reclaim Land+, languages, and lifeways through community-sustaining pedagogy. Transnational in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, we will discuss and engage with scholarship, art, films, documentaries, and narratives from Turtle Island/Abya Yala (the Americas), moana nui-a-kiwa (Oceania), Africa, and Southeast Asia to gain a global understanding of issues and debates in Indigenous and decolonial approaches to education. Course materials also emphasize Indigenous queer, two-spirit, intersectional, feminist, and Global South perspectives, as well as studies of colonial schooling in Dawnland (New England). The course centers reading, writing and discussion, embodying Indigenous education principles like courageous engagement and kinship. It will culminate in a community-embedded research project designed to foster our shared ability to teach and learn in ways that foster healing, balance, reciprocity, and justice.

Limited to 25 students; Fall Semester; Professor Romero

How to handle overenrollment: Education Studies majors are prioritized.

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Embodying Indigenous education principles like courageous engagement and kinship, the course centers reading, writing and discussion. It will culminate in a community-embedded research project designed to foster our shared ability to teach and learn in ways that foster healing, balance, reciprocity, and justice.