Power and Possibilities of Oral History Education: Addressing Redress and Reconciliation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium seeks to take up oral history education as a possible praxis of redress and reconciliation. We will call upon each other and the audience to question what oral history might call us to do, as citizens, activists, teachers, or historians committed to the public good. We will address the following curricular questions: How do community-based oral history projects affect historical memory of the public? What is the burden of collective remembering and how does oral history implicate people in the past? How are survivor oral histories brought into conversation with youth who are wrestling with present injustices? The presenters seek to provoke oral history as a hopeful, yet not taken-for-granted, pedagogy for encountering the lived experiences of others.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Pasts and Emerging Futurities (The Theorizing Moments of Curriculum)

Chair

• Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa

Papers

• Restorying Settler Teacher Education: Truth, Reconciliation, and Oral History - Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa; Kristina R. Llewellyn, University of Waterloo; Kiera Brant-Birioukov, University of British Columbia

• Witnessing Exclusion: Oral Histories, Historical Provenance, and Antiracism Education - Timothy Stanley, University of Ottawa

• The Power of Silence: Personal Memories and Historical Consciousness in Experiences of Racism in Canada - Pamela Sugiman, Ryerson University

• Cracks in the Foundation: (Re)Storying Settler Colonialism - Jennifer A. Tupper, University of Alberta