Educator MUST Read: Re-Storying Education
- janicedesroches
- Sep 10
- 2 min read
We are calling all educators to partake on a transformative journey of learning and re-storying our education systems using author, speaker, educator, and faculty at UBC Teacher Education Carolyn Roberts' invaluable book entitled Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens. Roberts defines Re-Storying Education is a process of dismantling old narratives taught in education and rebuilding new narratives that include all the voices that have created this place known as Canada today. The process of re-storying education allows for an active and collaborative reshaping of education to build strong relationships for collective educator action to include historically silenced voices in the classroom.
We encourage you to create your own learning circle and join us on this journey of learning, disrupting, and re-storying by:
1) grabbing a copy of the book.
2) partaking in daily/weekly reading and reflective journaling.
3) gathering weekly with your learning circle to partake in deep and meaningful dialogue, sharing, and reflection.
4) creating commitments to actions and acting moving forward.
"Inaction is an action. If an educator chooses to do nothing... they are perpetuating harm and racism in the educational space.”
~Carolyn Roberts (p. 64)
Let's act to disrupt the inequitable and harmful parts of the system to re-story a new possibility for education where everyone can flourish!
Educational Resources Provided Within the Book!
Re-Storying Education provides practical lessons, assessment strategies, and reflection tools to help educators develop a critical perspective. Roberts weaves in guiding questions, actionable strategies, personal stories, decolonizing practices, resource recommendations, and music playlists that highlight and celebrate Indigenous voices!
About the Author
Carolyn Roberts is a renowned educator, speaker and storyteller with a wealth of experience and expertise in Indigenous education and decolonization. She is a St’at’imc and Sto:lo woman belonging to the Thevarge family from N'quatqua Nation and the Kelly Family from the Tzeachten Nation and a member of the Squamish Nation. Throughout her illustrious career as an educator and administrator for over 20 years, she has consistently demonstrated a passion for supporting Indigenous resurgence through education.
Currently Carolyn holds the position as an Indigenous academic and Faculty Lecturer in the Teacher Education Department of the University of British Columbia. Her dedication to building teachers’ understandings in Indigenous history, education, and ancestral ways of knowing has not only garnered her recognition within education community, but it has also had a positive impact on the decolonizing of the education system.
(Bio from https://www.carolynroberts.net/)
"In recent years, so many excellent books have been written that can connect students to the society they live in, to historically silenced voices, and to all the things that have been eliminated from our education system. That is where educators should focus the learning"
(Carolyn Roberts, 2024, p. 56)