Monday, April 24, 2023, 12:00-1:00pm (on Zoom)

Decolonizing and Indigenous Pedagogies (Kelly Duquette, Cecilia Gomez, and Donna Troka)

As Lenape-Potawtomi scholar and educator, Dr. Susan Dion, reminds us: reconciliation is not just an issue between Indigenous peoples and their governments. In this workshop, we’ll think about two major concepts in decolonizing pedagogies: (1) Dion’s concept of the “perfect stranger;” and (2) Eve Tuck (Unangax̂) and Wayne Yang’s “settler moves to innocence,” both which describe the belief that settler/non-Indigenous folks are “off the hook” when it comes to Indigenous activism and issues. What can we as instructors do to disrupt this positioning? How can we center Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing in our classrooms? We’ll spend time learning together about the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM) and relational Indigenous leadership philosophies in higher education.