Higher Education as Institution of Decolonization: Role of Quantitative Methods Pedagogy

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Author(s): Kevin Lujan Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)and Ngoc T. Phan (Hawai'i Pacific University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 16
Source title: Learning and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education in Oceania
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Perry Jason Camacho Pangelinan (University of Guam, Guam)and Troy McVey (University of Guam, Guam)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7736-3.ch001

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Higher education should be an institution of decolonization––one centered on the repatriation of land and ocean to Indigenous peoples. Quantitative methods are used to perpetuate the historical and ongoing processes of Indigenous dispossession. However, quantitative methods courses often fail to reckon with these colonial histories and are taught in ways that are inaccessible for Indigenous students. Drawing from the first author's experiences as a professor of political science in Hawai‘i, this chapter proposes three classroom-level interventions that educators can pursue to make quantitative methods relatable and empowering for Indigenous students: (1) designing lectures to center the experiences of Indigenous students, (2) designing assignments that invite Indigenous students to interrogate the settler-colonial and neocolonial structures perpetuating Indigenous dispossession, and (3) maintaining university-community partnerships that provide Indigenous students with opportunities to use quantitative methods to support Indigenous sovereignty movements.

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