The UIC E-Portfolio Project

Landscape Theorizing

Decolonizing Analysis / Historicizing Structural Purpose / Deconstruct Institutional Whiteness

1. Inverse of social purposing of schooling
   Oppression = Structure
   Opportunity = Interpersonal
2. Mapping oppressions
3. Frame Analysis:
   1. Location of indigenous knowledges and their invisibilities
   2. Structured violence of bureaucracy / institutions — macroaggressions
   3. Deculturalization and interpersonal spaces — microaggressions
   4. Deculturalization and interpersonal dimensions — assault on identities
   5. Perpetuating imperialism through hegemony
4. Transposition of framing for intersectionalities / contexts of non-current demographics

Professional Stance

Resistance Approach / Critical Identity Development / Inversion of Whiteness

Guidelines for Critical Professional / Academic Discretionary Decisions:

• Invert deficit / gap framing
• Buffer essentializing in concentric spheres: macro-, meso-, micro-, individuals
• Honor structural awareness
• Filter porous mandates for subtle complexifying and interrupting racialized norms
• Mitigate monitoring with mastery of craft / community
• Effect compliance interest convergence with direct added value for student(s)
• Maintain 25% compliance code transparent in substance, value / weight, and scheduling

Interdisciplinary Praxis

Interrupting Colonizing Pedagogies, Hierarchies, Knowledges

• Build Deep-content learning / inquiring
• Facilitate Constructivist shared meaning-making
• Presume axiomatic brilliance as teacher’s toil
• Co-generate cross-content parallels and questioning
• Theorize content-base indigenous knowledges in content instruction
• Eliminate Anglo-normative instruction and socio-spatial construction
• Recontextualize PoP
• Disentangle objectives for clarity in skills, schema, knowledges, literacies

Reparative Rehumanization

Culture-infused Restorative, Reparative Justice

• Identity construction inside the institution (inside context, developing racialized lens)
• Problematize benevolence
• Celebrate dimensions of knowledge construction
• Mitigate impacts of complex bureaucratic violences
• Highlight knowledge constructions as bridge between targets of racialized institutions and power
• Read not for pathology but resistance and decolonial logics and convictions

Critical Reflexivity

Inversion of Tensions

• Instruct through and into decolonizing tensions
• Deconstruct formulaic practices or ideologies
• Intellectualize Metacognition
• Reflect openly with transparency on goals / objects of resistance
• Invert induction processes and psychological, sociological, and cultural-political impacts
• Deconstruct socialization process into whiteness