Unselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves

“Unselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves,” an Outcome archive entry by Elaina Berlin. The entry belongs to the jcrt collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses Berlin urges teachers to confront settler colonialism and white supremacy by centering Indigenous history critical pedagogy, and accountability today.. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including College educators have a duty to confront the lived realities of white supremacy and settler colonialism as they present themselves in the classroom, the historical record, and the academy at large. This response paper engages with the ideas and experiences presented by the fellow panel authors, and it contemplates the necessary steps needed to counteract the persistence of settler colonial and white supremacist ideologies in post secondary education from the perspective of a junior historian. By devoting ourselves to the accessibility of educational materials, including diverse interpretations and accounts of the past in our courses, and not shying away from the discomfort that confronting these systems will cause, educators in college settings can work against white supremacy. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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