Date: October 14 from 11:00-12:00 p.m. MST.
Decolonizing, Paths to New Futurities
Description: The presentation explores what it means to speak of decolonizing and the implications for cultural, educational and social change. It examines the search for genuine options to change the social order of things to reshape how resources are shared and/or distributed and to forge new alliances in order to resist the dominance of Western modernity. The panel aims to activate and develop equity considerations and engage in critical conversations regarding a rhetoric of reform in cultural, social and educational settings geared towards the needs of the majority.
Bio: Marie McLeod is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Marie is an educator with comprehensive proficiency in educational administration. Her doctoral research is dedicated to providing scholarship to apply an anti-colonial/anti-racism lens to challenge and subvert traditional Euro-American perspectives and discourses in Western traditional epistemology used to evaluate knowledge and what it means to know.
(Michelle H.A. Bailey is a full-time high school teacher and PhD candidate in the department of Social justice Education (SJE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her research interests include Restorative practices in Education, Holistic Education, Deconstruction Designations for Marginalized Students and Early Engaging of the Pathways to Post-Secondary Success.
Rowena Linton is a PhD student in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her research interest is in Black students schooling experiences, academic success and developing an antiracist curriculum, teaching and learning practices and pedagogies.
Marycarmen Lara-Villanueva is a Mexican-born PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Marycarmen is an anti-racist educator and organizer with extensive experience doing anti-oppressive work with parents and caregivers. Her doctoral research is anchored in anti-colonial discursive theories, and it explores anti-Black racism in Mexico and how it is produced and learned in schools through visual culture. She is also a Coordinator at the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies.)
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