coe-staff: Feedback Requested for Indigenous Studies Tenure Track Faculty Candidate Leilani Sabzalian

[Denise McKenney]

The Indigenous Studies search committee would like to thank everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to meet with candidate Leilani Sabzalian, and/or attend her colloquium.

If you were unable to attend her colloquium, you can view the recording here: https://uoregon.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9125c409-7912-4fdb-9127-3d102a496837


Please provide your feedback on the candidate by completing our survey here: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4SnBC7in3fVfVpr
The link will remain open and evals can be submitted through Feb 10. I have also attached her CV to this email. Thank you again for your participation in this important process.

Leilani Sabzalian, PhD
Survivance Case Studies: An Indigenous Studies Approach to Education Research

Colloquium and Q&A
Monday, January 30, 2017 - 2:00-3:30 PM
HEDCO 230T

The most visible programs of research on Indigenous K-12 education takes place in reservation schools, tribally-controlled schools, or schools with large numbers of Indigenous students. However, the majority of Indigenous students attend public schools, many of which have small percentages of Indigenous students. As a result, urban Indigenous students and their families are constantly in danger of being ignored by educators, policy makers, and researchers. In an effort to draw attention to this cultural erasure, and in response to the National Indian Educational Association’s (NIEA) naming of the needs of urban Indigenous students as a national research priority, Dr. Sabzalian addresses the pressing need for practices and programs of research that attend to the needs of urban Indigenous students. Drawing on two years of participant and non-participant fieldwork in a public school district, as well as individual and focus-group interviews, Dr. Sabzalian’s research uses a case study approach to document the ways colonialism surfaces in educational policy and practice. Her research also intentionally foregrounds Native survivance, an approach which acknowledges adaptive Native strength, creativity, and agency in the face of colonialist processes that ignore, erase, and marginalize Indigenous students. The case studies discussed survey a range of educational issues that address educational policy, curriculum, and practice. Drawing on contemporary Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and the field of teacher knowledge research, Dr. Sabzalian’s research identifies teacher practices that can enable educators, administrators, and practitioners to better support Indigenous students and communities in K-12 public schools.

Dr. Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq) is a Postdoctoral Scholar of Indigenous Studies in Education at the University of Oregon. She holds a PhD in Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education from the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines the ways K-12 schools reproduce colonial discourses through educational policy and practice. Her research also offers educators theories and practices to disrupt colonialism and enact curriculum and pedagogy that further Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty. Dr. Sabzalian is currently working on her forthcoming book, Urban Indigenous Education in Colonial Contexts: Survivance Stories of Teaching and Research (soon to be published by Routledge) which focuses on the preparation of K-12 teachers and administrators.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists-prod.uoregon.edu/pipermail/coe-staff/attachments/20170202/1b1cc762/attachment.html>