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Countering Coloniality in Educational Research

From Ownership to Answerability

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ID8924376
AuthorsLisa Patel (0000-0003-0001-291X, Boston College, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume50
Issue4
Pages357-377
Publication date2014-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131946.2014.924942
OpenAlexW2143638056
LanguageEN
Citations received78
References cited44

In this theoretical article, I argue for a relational stance on learning as a way of reckoning with educational research as part of the settler colonial structure of the United States. Because of my geopolitical location to the United States as a settler colony, I begin by contrasting the stances of anticolonial and decolonial. I then analyze the ways in which educational research is animated by settler colonialism in its constant pursuit of property and ownership. Through examples of research, I make visible how the physical practices of settler colonialism are echoed through material and figurative practices of education and perpetuate colonial relationships. I close with a call for educational research to become answerable to knowledge about learning through learning as being-in-relation that recognizes education and educators investments in settler colonialism

Political science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Race, History, and American Society

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