Decolonizing Educational Relationships

fatima Pirbhai-Illich is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at Regina University, Canada.Frances Martin is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Exeter, UK.Shauneen Pete is the Chair of Emerging Indigenous Scholars Circle and a Faculty member in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University, Canada.

• Foreword; Jerome Cranston Section 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Theoretical foundations Section 2. Identifying the issues Chapter 3. Whiteness, decentering whiteness and teacher ontologies Chapter 4. Race and racism in education Section 3. Working towards de/colonizing educational relationships Chapter 5. Spirituality and relationality Chapter 6. Invitation and hospitality Chapter 7. Spaces, places and boundaries Section 4. An imaginary for de/colonizing educational relationships Chapter 8. De/colonizing research and scholarship Chapter 9. Bringing it all together

This insightful book delves into the critical importance of transforming educational relationships as a means to challenge coloniality within education. Rather than shying away from the intricate complexities and inevitable dissonances that arise in collective change efforts, this book treats them as catalysts for deepened learning and expanded accountability. It refrains from offering simplistic solutions or universal remedies, and instead equips educators with valuable frameworks, tools, and thought-provoking questions to identify and interrupt ongoing colonial dynamics within mainstream educational institutions. By doing so, it offers an important gesture toward how we might learn to live together differently.