Our goal in this article is to remind readers what is unsettling about decolonization. Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools. The easy adoption of decolonizing discourse by educational advocacy and scholarship, evidenced by the increasing number of calls to “decolonize our schools,” or use “decolonizing methods,” or, “decolonize student thinking”, turns decolonization into a metaphor. By Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Drawing on the global interdisciplinary literature on decolonizing curriculum and pedagogy (DCP) in higher education, we critically examined the idea of decolonizing in the context of disciplines and universities around the world. By Riyad A. Shahjahan, Annabelle L. Estera, Kristen L. Sura, and Kirsten T. Edwards
"I wish to use the first post of this blog series to offer some preliminary thoughts on the terminologies of the ‘decolonial’ (and ‘postcolonial’), in order to get the sharing and conversation started. As I will explain below, sharing, after all, lies at the heart of the project of decolonisation for me. If we need to decolonise ourselves, we cannot do so by keeping our thoughts in our mind; we need to say them out loud and start conversations based on them." By Michael Tsang
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. By Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
"Nestled in the hills, meadows, marshes, and forests, between the Ohio and Mississippi River systems and the Great Lakes, are The University’s of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Kentucky, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University, Purdue University, Michigan State University, and Ohio State University. These are all Land Grant Universities, or LGUs. Four of these LGUs, Purdue, Ohio, Illinois, and Kentucky, rank among the top ten of the original 52 Land Grant Universities, for which the greatest amount of land from indigenous tribes, bands, and communities was ceded or seized." By Aliyah Keuthan
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