Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability

by Leigh Patel

Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically within educational research and formal schooling. Purposefully situated beyond popular deconstructionist theory and anthropocentric perspectives, the book investigates the longstanding traditions of oppression, racism, and white supremacy that are systemically reseated and reinforced by learning and social interaction. Through these meaningful explorations into the unfixed and often interrupted narratives of culture, history, place, and identity, a bold, timely, and hopeful vision emerges to conceive of how research in secondary and higher education institutions might break free of colonial genealogies and their widespread complicities.

196 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 6, 2022

About the author

Also known as Lisa Patel.

Reviews

[John Byrnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Patel makes a complex and thoughtful case for increasing the time to pause and consider the nature of qualitative questions and research necessary to truly move into a decolonial project. With helpful references to indigenous ways of knowing, this text is not a direct methods text but outlines some questions to help push edicational research to reflect on its intentions and outcomes.