Dr. Noah Romero will be the next speaker in the Indigenous Education Speakers’ Series! His talk will take place on Thursday, March 23rd at 12pm and will be online. Please register here to attend!
Dr. Noah Romero is a decolonial theorist and critical Indigenous studies scholar-educator. Bridging Ethnic Studies and Education, his research examines how dispossessed and deterritorialized people redefine learning and identity in subcultural contexts, with a focus on Indigenous and immigrant communities in the U.S., Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Philippines, and the Philippine diaspora. Dr. Romero is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar of Educator Preparation at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
He will give a talk titled “Decolonial Underground Pedagogy: Decolonizing Education through Subcultural Learning.” This talk introduces decolonial underground pedagogy, a framework that shows how minority-led subcultures can foster critical consciousness and decolonial action through informal learning, community engagement, and nonhierarchical relationships. Through decolonizing methodologies, autoethnography, close reading, and the Indigenous Philippine methodology of pakapa-kapa, this talk examines the emancipatory experiences found in three minority-led subcultures: punk rock, skateboarding, and unschooling. These analyses then inform a discussion of how subcultural learning can enrich efforts to Indigenize and decolonize education in other contexts, including in schools.
This post was authored by Academic Affairs on 03/07/2023.