Virtual Seminar Series

March 18, 19 & 25

For some time, scholars in settler colonial nations have been arguing for the need to decolonise education; some example include Mignolo in Argentina (2011), Battiste in Canada (2013), Smith in New Zealand (2012), Moreton-Robinson in Australia (2015) and Mbebe in South Africa (2016). Calls to systematically decolonise higher education became heightened following the 2015 #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movement led by student activists in South Africa (Kumalo, 2021). In the Canadian context, calls to Indigenize and decolonize education proliferate. More than a decade ago, the Association of Canadian Deans of Education came together to endorse a vision for Indigenous Education; in 2015 the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission published their findings along with 94 Calls to Action, of which a number related to education. Many years later their vision for education continues to be elusive.
In this seminar series we discuss the relationships between de/colonization and Indigenization and focus on de/colonizing educational relationships in higher and teacher education because we believe that the processes of de/colonization are ontological as well as an epistemological process. The seminars are designed to be a mixture of presentations, activities, and discussion.

Led by

  • Fatmakhanu (fatima) Pirbhai-Illich (Professor of Language and Literacy Education University of Regina)
  • Shauneen Pete (Chair of the Emerging Indigenous Scholars Circle, Royal Roads University)
  • Fran Martin (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter)

Sponsored by the University of Regina, Faculty of Education

Registration: Free
To join: Register

For more information contact:
Fatima.Pirbhai-Illich@uregina.ca or
Fran. Martin@exeter.ac.uk