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…
Why are things the way they are? In Jared Diamond’s, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the geographer and physiologist commences with a relatively straightforward question: why is it that some civilizations conquered others? Check out the Diamond’s collapse – the Anastazi somebody who didn’t know writing and the consequences. Then another culture that had writing but…
Leigh Patel 
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