Dream Weaving as Praxis: Turning Culturally Inclusive Education and Anti-Racist Education Into a Decolonial Pedagogy
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https://doi.org/10.37119/ojs2013.v19i2.144Keywords:
education, culturally inclusive education, anti-racist education, Indigenous education, decolonization, K-12Abstract
Utilizing the parameters of the dreaming phase in the decolonizing framework developed by Poka Laeuni (2009), this paper investigates how culturally inclusive education and anti-racist education philosophies have been posited as potential approaches to decolonizing Canadian K-12 schools. To examine how culturally inclusive education manifests in Ontario’s K-12 system as a result of the Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Educational Policy Framework, this paper explores three topic areas. First, I provide a literature review of culturally inclusive education; second, I offer a literature review of anti-racist education; and third, having assessed the shortcomings of the two pedagogies previously, I conclude that neither culturally inclusive education nor anti-racist education are sufficient alone as decolonizing strategies. From this analysis, I hypothesize that by weaving components of the two pedagogies together, a possible decolonizing framework may be created.
Keywords: education; culturally inclusive education; anti-racist education; Indigenous education; decolonization
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