Education in Movement Spaces (Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education)

This book amplifies the distinct, intersecting, and coalitional possibilities of education in the spaces of ongoing movements for Native and Black liberation. Contributors highlight the importance of activist-oriented teaching and learning in community encampments and other movement spaces for the preservation and expansion of resistance education. With chapters from scholars, educators, and organizers, this volume offers lessons taken from these experiences for nation-state schools, classrooms, and spaces of teaching and learning that are most commonly experienced by Native and Black children and educators. Through attention to recent social movements across the United States―from Standing Rock to Black Lives Matter―this book demonstrates the vital connections between Native and Black communities’ educational futures.

Alayna Eagle Shield is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is currently a doctoral student and research assistant in the Banks Center for Educational Justice at the University of Washington.

Django Paris is the James A. and Cherry A. Banks Professor of Multicultural Education and director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice at the University of Washington.

Rae Paris is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Washington.

Timothy San Pedro is an Associate Professor of Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education at The Ohio State University.