Description: This powerful analysis of reconciliation in higher education exposes the limits of progress and calls institutions toward accountable and transformative change.
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Sheila Cote-Meek is Anishinaabe from the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. She is a professor and interim vice-provost, Indigenous Engagement at Brock University. She was the inaugural vice-president of Equity, People and Culture at York University, where she led the development of the Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) strategy and York's Black Inclusion Strategy. She was the inaugural associate-vice-president of Indigenous and Academic Programs at Laurentian University, where she developed and led the Indigenous Sharing and Learning Centre, the Maamwazing Indigenous Research Institute and the Master of Indigenous Relations. Dr. Cote-Meek co-edited Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada (2020); Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy (2020); and Perspectives on Indigenous Pedagogy in Education: Learning from One Another (2023). She is well-known nationally for her work in advancing Indigeneity, equity and inclusion in higher education.
Review Quotes: Sheila Cote- Meek's second edition of Colonized Classrooms is essential reading for anyone teaching or working within higher education today. It offers not only a critical understanding of how colonialism operates in educational spaces but also is a call to action! A call for ethical spaces, a more just educational experience, and pathways to genuinely step into the work of decolonizing learning environments."--Carolyn Roberts, Speaker, Author and Faculty Lecturer at UBC Teacher Education