In this paper, I explore the transitional spaces of teaching and writing by restorying an anomalous event in my teaching of Canadian literature in a grade seven classroom and my efforts to decolonise that teaching. Thinking with Elizabeth Ellsworth's concept of pedagogy as it relates to knowledge in the making and the learning self, I take…

What does decolonising the curriculum (DtC) entail and is it possible in the current context? I distinguish between a thick and thin idea of DtC. Thick DtC acknowledges that alternative knowledge systems exist, other than our western view of knowledge as 'justified true belief'. Thick DtC calls for recognition of epistemic injustice to indigenous…

We are one Indigenous and three settler academics struggling with the question of what decolonizing means for us in our educational practices at three universities, located in different parts of the territory called Canada and Turtle Island. Drawn to the idea of Decoding the Disciplines as a process for this work, we found ourselves critiquing…

Despite mandates from 1995 to incorporate Indigenous knowledge in all curricula in Manitoba, secondary mathematic curricula content has very few Indigenous perspectives, and what is provided is limited to viewing Indigenous artwork and architecture through the lens of Western Mathematics. In the spirit of Reconciliation, acknowledging that…

Indigenous Student Centres (ISCs) are student affairs units specialized to serve Indigenous students and communities. These Centres are places of significance on campus for Indigenous students for their cultural relevance and embodiment of Indigenous ways of being. Professionals working in and with ISCs ground their work firmly in Indigenous…

In this discussion paper, we argue the need to decolonise curricula in our educational institutions and outline practical steps to do this to acknowledge, respect, empower and elevate Indigenous voices. As an example of colonised curriculum, Australian children previously learned about remembrance of war service days, such as Anzac Day and…

Indigenousness is about long-term occupancy of a place and the knowledge and consciousness that arises from place. In this edited volume, global Indigenous voices engage in truth-telling about 500+ years of colonisation, including loss of population, language, culture, spirituality, and land. Education has been central in facilitating colonialism.…

Chapter 5, "Decolonising place", begins with an overview of the "colonisation project", viewing it as a special case of dispossession, characterised not just by an unjustifiable appropriation of territory but also by ideological warfare and cultural erasure. In this regard, it will explore the concept of the "wild",…

In these regenerative times prompted by the Anthropocene, Aboriginal voices are situated to draw on ancient wisdom for local learning and to share information across the globe as ecological imperative for planetary wellbeing. In this paper, postqualitative research foregrounds the sentient nature of life as ancestral power and brings the vitality…

This article reflects upon literacies that are encoded in the landscape and in natural forms, and which describe a different relation between humans and the environment. It criticises the Eurocentric biases that have equated literacy to writing and promoted the opposition of literate vs. oral societies. Although there has been a turn toward…

Indigenous communities are reshaping higher education governance structures worldwide. Guided by Indigenous knowledges, this paper introduces a new theoretical approach to examining institutional change that centers around decolonization and focuses on returning control, building capacity, and connecting to land. The document analysis covered…

This paper uses the concept of glocality to illuminate the ways in which the global operates as a hegemonic social construct for settler and colonial states to infiltrate and repress other local epistemological domains to assert and maintain control. Identifying four prominent and interconnected themes in the glocality literature: developing deep…

In this paper, we explore the evolution of graphic design and its education in Ghana. Graphic design emerged in Ghana through colonisation, which influenced the perceptions of traditional art forms. We review the tensions between Western and indigenous trends in Ghanaian art and design and explore existing pedagogical philosophies in Ghana's…

In this five-year co-curricular-making project, participants individually and collectively engage in the messiness of ongoing meaning-making. Such curricular terrain acknowledges the particulars of individuals and place to provide the needed context as 100+ practicing and 140+ prospective educators seek un/decolonized and Indigenized co-curricular…

As more alarming truths are being revealed around the horrors of the residential schooling system in Canada, educators are being called to decolonize and Indigenize their teaching practices. As post-secondary teacher educators working in Indigenous education who have gained valuable insights around this difficult teaching, the authors offer…