Sharon Stein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective and author of Unsettling the University. She is grateful to the people from four different generations who reviewed drafts of this text.
What do faculty owe future generations?
The education of older generations, including my own, has not prepared most faculty to hold these harsh truths and process these heavy emotions in generative ways, and thus, the education we offer our students is not preparing them to do so either.
January 30, 2024