Chatting with Mona Tolley about Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education
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Chatting with Mona Tolley about Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education
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This episode opens with Mona grounding us in Anishinaabe teachings of gratitude and welcoming, setting the tone for a conversation about transforming education through relationships.
Mona unpacks the terms decolonization, indigenization, and reconciliation with clarity and purpose, examining how local Indigenous ways of knowing can shape classrooms. Decolonizing helps us see what the system was built to do and who it leaves out. Indigenizing invites local nations’ ways of knowing, doing, and being into the heart of classrooms, curriculum, and school design. Reconciliation turns truth into action: funding language revitalization, co-creating curricula and assessment, and shifting calendars to honour community life.
At its heart, this conversation is about relationships (with people, knowledge, and the land) and how these relationships shape our work as educators and lifelong learners.