TIAHUI
A Decolonial Framework for Pedagogy & Practice
Our framework, TIAHUI (Nahuatl for “moving forward”), supports decolonial and rehumanizing pedagogy using three intersecting circulos: Community Agreements, the Nahui Ollin, and six tenets for decolonizing our pedagogy and practice. The TIAHUI framework is a living archive of resistance embodying Ethnic Studies organizing, decolonial pedagogy and Indigenous epistemologies, tying ancestral knowledge to the present context, as a living archive. This framework has been implemented by school districts and higher education institutions to reframe their policies and practices by including these critical and decolonial approaches in all areas of their curriculum and pedagogy, and more specifically, integrated into Ethnic Studies course work and curriculum development.
INTERACTIVE TIAHUI
Use the graphic below to learn more about each component of the TIAHUI framework.
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Share your TIAHUI lessons with us!
We are hoping to invite 3–4 scholars to present on a panel about our TIAHUI framework at the XITO Summer Institute in Tucson, July 5-7th and share their examples of how they are using TIAHUI in their classes and schools.
If you have developed a TIAHUI-aligned lesson/unit/protocol and are interested in this opportunity, please use this form (linked below) to share with us by May 24, 2024! Scholars invited to present will have their registration fee waived.
In addition, we are currently working on building a “living archive” of TIAHUI-aligned resources and looking for XITO scholars to share lessons, units, classroom protocols or any other items you have developed in alignment with any element of TIAHUI (community agreements, Nahui Ollin, 6 tenets). We are hoping to collect examples that we can embed into the TIAHUI interactive graphic above so that other educators have examples they can use as inspiration to develop their own!
