Unsettling the Settlers: Principles of a Decolonial Approach to Creating Safe(r) Spaces in Post-secondary Education.

We describe an educational context, a pedagogical praxis, and our efforts to bridge the theories of Settler colonialism and community psychology. From our individual and collective reflections of engagement with decolonization in the education system we present an emergent framework that highlights four principles for decolonization. In implementing these principles we discuss the co-creation of safe(r), decolonized spaces within post-secondary institutions through deconstructing dominant narratives and illuminating Indigenous narratives of self-determination with attention to the de-powerment of non-Indigenous faculty and students. PMID: 30506806 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Community Psychology - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Am J Community Psychol Source Type: research