Truth and reconciliation through education : stories of decolonizing practices

Poitras Pratt, Yvonne, (editor.). Bodnaresko, Sulyn, (editor.).

Summary: "How educators can respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action. Educators have a special role in furthering truth and reconciliation in education, but many struggle to understand exactly what that means and how to accomplish it. There is no step-by-step guide to getting it right. Educators can only meaningfully accomplish truth and reconciliation in education by seeking out truth and reconciliation through education: an ongoing process of amplifying Indigenous voices and experiences, allowing oneself to be changed by them, and being guided by this learning both personally and professionally. Springing from an Indigenous education master's certificate program at the University of Calgary and written from an adult education perspective on transformative learning, this book invites educators, broadly defined, into a conversation about truth and reconciliation through education. Section I contains useful chapters on program design and concepts, while section II presents a collection of inspirational and thought-provoking personal reflections from Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators who have taken deliberate, active roles in responding to the TRC's Calls to Action. This is a resource written by educators for educators wishing to embark on their own journeys of truth and reconciliation. Join the reconciliatory education community in courageously teaching, learning, and acting, just as the educators in this collected volume do."--

Record details

ISBN: 155059933X
ISBN: 9781550599336
Physical Description: xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc., [2023]

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Section I: Imagining and seeding possibilities: Models for reconciliatory education -- Growing good medicine: A model of indigenous program design / Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Patricia J. Danyluk, and Sulyn Bodnaresko -- Reconciliatory education: An extended infinity model / Sulyn Bodnaresko and Yvonne Poitras Pratt -- Decolonization and transformative learning: Student experiences in the call to action program / Patricia J. Danyluk -- The relational model for teaching and learning: An approach to curriculum design / Solange Lalonde -- Coming full circle: The call to action critical service-learning projects / Aubrey Jean Hanson -- Section II: Stories of decolonizing practices -- Part 1: Stories of indigenous reclamation, revitalization, and reconnection -- Lost and found: A Northerner finding home and community in the South / Ashley Ruben -- Planting a story of hope, healing, and transformation / Nyre R. Kirby -- My life journey through the four directions / Kerry A. Green -- Setting hope free: Eeyou-eenou leadership in reconciliation / Nian Matoush -- Finding strength in community and culture: Applying traditional Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principles and practices to address contemporary challenges / Jeanien Cooper Bell -- Part 2: Stories of reconciliatory education in K to 12 -- Braiding strands of identity, traditional ways, and storytelling / Tammy Parent -- Shaken and stirred to the core: Listening as a central act of learning / Michael Glenney -- Decolonizing educator practice in international classrooms / Jennifer L. Brooks -- Navigating barriers to reconciliation through education: A non-Indigenous educator's journey of learning / Alyssa Fehr -- Heart to heart: Indigenous truths taking flight through the agency of Calgary middle school students / Sarah Beech and Darren Vaast -- Part 3: Stories of learning with community -- From decolonizing to indigenizing: Learning together how to start from where you are / Harmony Jeffery Gordon, Erin Cavallin, and Helen Paik Domstad -- Building bridges into good relations: An early learning experience / Michelle Bamford -- Storied science: Elevating indigenous knowledges through placemaking in colonial spaces / Amy Thompson -- Home is where the land is: Mount Athabasca and the mountain M̌tis / Adrian Huysman and Yvonne Poitras Pratt -- Part 4: Stories of ethical allyship -- Growing in relation: Reconciling our learning spirits together / Haboun Bair -- Dismantling the colonial lens: Emotional commitment as a path to reconciliation / Amanda Nielsen -- Leaning into the discomfort of transformative empathy: One settler educator's journey of unlearning / Andra Coulter -- Exploring motivations for settler engagement / Jennifer Paulson Brand, Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn, and Patricia J. Danyluk.