Unsettling Education: Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Land Book Launch
Please join us for the book launch of, Unsettling Education: Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Land on Tuesday October 1st, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. in the Atrium of First Nations University of Canada. Co-editors, Drs. Anna-Leah King, Kathleen O’Reilly, and Patrick J. Lewis will be presenting this new edited collection alongside several of the contributing authors.
Please join us for discussion and conversation with food and drink. There will be door prizes!
Free parking is available in LOT 12M at First Nations University of Canada.
About the Book: This edited collection tackles “unsettling” as an emerging field of study that calls for settlers to follow Indigenous leadership and relationality and work toward disrupting the colonial reality through their everyday lives. Bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and activists, Unsettling Education considers how we can reconcile and transcend ongoing settler colonialism.
The contributors reflect on how the three concepts of unsettling, Indigenization, and decolonization overlap and intersect in practical and theoretical ways. Questions are raised such as how can we recognize and address historical and current injustices that have been imposed upon Indigenous Peoples and their lands? How can we respect the fundamental and inherent sovereignty and rights of Indigenous Peoples as we work toward reconciliation? And how do we work collectively to build more equitable and just communities for all who call Canada home?
Early Review: “This collective work is a home fire of thought, intelligence, and vision. It is a walk, leading humanity into the future. This collection is a powerful guide that serves as a way of coming together with urgency, while remaining intact with love. The spirituality within is the seen and unseen which includes sacred places and spaces, most importantly the land. This gathering of wisdom is the ‘unsettling’ of education that we all need today.”
—Belinda kakiyosēw Daniels, PhD, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Education, University of Victoria
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/unsettling-education/