Decolonizing Educational Research

Leigh Patel is Professor of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

• Introduction 1. Educational Research as a Site of Coloniality 2. [Dys]Functionality: Educational Research and Settler Colonialism 3. Research as Relational 4. Answerability 5. Beyond Social Justice Afterword: The Embodied Resistance to Pause: When My Body Rejected Stillness

"The book's clarity is an elegant accomplishment. It is a humane breathing of life into what answerability can be, and it is pedagogically powerful, particularly as new generations of scholars deeply attuned and aware of some of the contingencies we must be answerable to, are ready and willing – and perhaps already reaching for, rehearsing or practicing answerability."From the Foreword by Megan Bang, Professor of Learning Sciences and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University, USA"Patel provides a praxis of pausing and even a way to listen for the balk as a sound of learning. She calls for educational research to be answerable to Indigenous people, answerable to colonized peoples on Indigenous land, and answerable to Black people on Indigenous land...Patel has done something quite generous and generative for educational research: she has offered it an opportunity to reframe and redirect itself. She has offered it a lifeline."From the First Edition's Foreword by Eve Tuck, Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University, USA