I recently changed cell phones (or mobile phones to all my folk in Oz), and like any break-up, there was a kind of a dance around the contract, with implicit and explicit appeals to preserve the agreement. You have been a customer of ours for quite awhile. Do you know about our special offer that…
In this post, I continue the foundation we have of the academy being a system of social reproduction and discuss the ways in which the academy is held and not held accountable. If Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel or Collapse concerned you, you’re about to have some flashbacks. Accountability: the state of being accountable,…
When I tell other academics that I am working on a project of decolonizing educational research, they are either very enthusiastic or understandably ambiguous, wondering if I’ve just implicated them as a colonizer. Echoing this age of Racism without Racists (see Bonilla-Silva’s book for a cogent treatise that defines this time before anyone had even…
We began our inquiry from a view of the system of educational debt and from there, I invoked Diamond’s work as a metaphor, to ask what educational research has to do with things are they way they are. Within the field of educational research, this inquiry will focus particularly upon the genre of research, how…
In her 2006 Presidential address to the American Educational Research Association, Gloria Ladson-Billings called upon educational researchers to shift their lenses from the achievement gap to the achievement debt. Through this one-word change, Ladson-Billings calls upon educational research to widen and deepen the ways in which educational disparities are framed. Ladson-Billings traces the path…
Leigh Patel 
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