Social Science Indigenous Studies
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope
Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2024
- Category
- Indigenous Studies, Activism & Social Justice, Research
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776644660
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $41.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776644677
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $31.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780776644653
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $71.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 15 to 18
- Grade: 10 to 12
Description
Universities are learning to address the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission but are struggling to reconcile colonial attitudes, past practices and future actions within a system that is highly colonial. To meet the Calls to Action and orient ourselves to reconciliation, learning more accurate stories, identifying leaders in Indigenous communities, and engaging with creative selves, may help us take steps on our journeys.
We believe we need to answer these calls within ourselves even as we try to answer these calls in our classrooms.
The Graduate Programs in Education faculty and staff at Thompson Rivers University are actively engaged in strengthening our heartbeat in relation to reconciliation.
Fourteen faculty teaching in Graduate Programs in Education contributed to this book. Additionally, Brett Fairbairn, President of Thompson Rivers University, discusses the increased focus on indigenization at his institution. Garry Gottfriedson, shares his vision in offering this professional learning opportunity, both for the university and for Canada, and explains his experiences as an Indigenous community member from Secwepemc nation, a teacher, facilitator, and colleague.
The book is divided into four sections, each with an introduction that expresses what authors thought they would learn and what they learned. Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors will share this writing and learning space. Each section includes a 400-word of positionality, both in relation to the academy and in relation to Indigenous understanding. It also presents an Canadian Indigenous author and a creative work that addresses some elements of indigeneity that are of interest to them, using poetry, short story, or a children’s story as the vehicle. The book also includes two afterwords - the first by Garry Gottfriedson and Victoria Handford, and the second by Dorothy Christian and Janice Dick-Billy, both of whom are Elders in the Interior
of British Columbia.
The journey of reconciliation on Canadian university campuses must be taken.
About the authors
Victoria Handford is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at Thompson Rivers University. She is also the Coordinator of Graduate Programs. Her research interests include school, and school district leadership, and trust.
Victoria Handford's profile page
Garry Gottfriedsen's profile page
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a professor and director of the Teacher Education Program at the University of Ottawa.
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Patricia Liu Baergen's profile page
Natalie Clark’s practice, research and activism is informed and mobilized through her interconnected identities including her Settler ancestry and her Secwepemc and Métis kinship – as grandmother, mother, auntie and community member. Natalie is a Full Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Service at Thompson Rivers University, Co-Chair of the Gender Equity committee, and continues to practice as a violence counsellor and girls group facilitator with children, youth and families.
Georgann Cope-Watson's profile page
Dorothy Christian is a visual storyteller from the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations of British Columbia. She is a Ph. D. candidate at UBC’s Department of Educational Studies and currently writing her dissertation “Gathering Knowledge: Visual Storytellers & Indigenous Storywork.” Publications include chapters in Thinking with Water (Chen et al., eds., 2013) and Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity (Mathur et al., eds., 2011).
Dorothy Christian's profile page
Tracy Christianson's profile page
Janice Dick Billy's profile page
Brett Fairbairn is a professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in democratic governance and history. He is also a Fellow in Co-operative Thought and Ideas at the University’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.
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