Non-Indigenous Women Teaching Indigenous Education: A Duoethnographic Exploration of Untold Stories

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Disrupting Privilege in Social Justice Education: Evaluating Teacher and Research Positionality

Abstract

Identifying as non-Indigenous, we are often left considering our positionality and identity in Indigenous education, how we have come to be invested in this area of research, and what we see as our contribution. We realized we share certain stories and not others when speaking about our experiences working in Indigenous education, but were less familiar with why. What did we fear would happen if we divulged these ‘untold’ stories? Through a duoethnographic inquiry we respond to this critical question by dialogically documenting, analyzing, and probing our experiences as teacher-educators to unpack why we share some stories and censor others.

Authors

• Sarah Burm, University of Western Ontario

• Dawn Burleigh, University of Lethbridge