Decolonizing Educational Relationships

In this course you and your colleagues will critically examine how white settler colonialism shapes the ways in which relationships are conceptualized and practiced in higher education systems. Through engagement with interdisciplinary scholarship from a multitude of voices and locations, and through student-led assignments, you are asked to imagine and practice what it means to actively work on decolonizing educational relationships. You are encouraged to witness where decolonizing relationships is already happening and to extend into how it may look and feel to be in relationship to Indigenous sovereignties, to each other, the more-than-human world, to time, to systems, and to change, differently. Our focus is on relationality, accountability and repair within and beyond current post-secondary educational systems and on deconstructing hierarchical and binary assumptions about relationships in higher educational systems.