A Return to Interrogating Educational Development

Much has changed since we published our call to interrogate educational development for racism and colonization. Since then, our team has engaged in scholarly research to critically interrogate our own field and some of its unquestioned assumptions to better align our practices with our purpose. Our methodology incorporated journey mapping, a method that centers narrative as a source of data. Our methodological choice acknowledges that as researchers, we are not neutral observers but are positioned within the professional contexts we investigate. In this piece, we describe how our maps have served as a reflective tool for our own experiences in educational development as we make sense of the results of our research during a time when those in political power aim to normalize racism and affirm settler colonialism.