RES 7240 - Decolonizing Educational Research (3)

When Offered: On Demand
The purpose of this course is to study colonial logics for how they inform practices of modern educational research, focusing specifically on the politics of knowledge and ethics of power. Indigenous and anti-colonial scholars are centered in the course curriculum. A central feature of the course are the connections between anti-colonial methodology, research ethics, and the generation of representative knowledge systems. Students will be introduced to concepts and methods with the aim of designing place-based inquiry and research that is participatory, democratic, collective, and relational. Students will also study aesthetic and critical expression as alternatives to traditional academic writing genres.