Decolonizing Education does not mean doing away with all current Western Educational Pedagogies for good. It means disrupting, dismantling and rebuilding - together. This ensures that all cultural values and pedagogies are included in order to create education systems that:

• is safe and inclusive 

• in which all races, cultures, ethnicities, belief systems, genders and identities are valued and seen as a source of strength

• teach critical and creative thinking skills crucial to reject racist viewpoints and to question dominant narratives

• incorporate FNMI histories, perspectives, cultures, issues, beliefs, experiences, etc. into teaching

• to strengthen cultural self-esteem and identity 

1. To help learners come to recognize and know the structures of colonization and their implications;

2. To engage in activities that disrupt those structures on an individual and collective level;

3. To validate and re-centre of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing;

4. To facilitate engagement with possibilities for making change in the world;

5. To respond to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action;

6. To create safe, inclusive, intercultural, accepting, pluralistic spaces for ALL students and community members;

7. Because it is particularly in the interests of supporting Indigenous self-determination, and has deep implications for settler societies