A Community Partnership: Ceremony, Sharing, and Reflections

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Indigenous Learning Across Contexts (Table 28)

Abstract

Five researcher-educators with various perspectives come together to make meaning of participant reflections following a year of co-curricular, land-based, relational experiences with local Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Scholars in a multi-year SSHRC Partnership Grant project. Insights from participant reflections are shared to bring light to the processes that take place inter-relationally (external relations) and inner-relationally (self-relations). Gifts from the meaning-making—the findings—include identifying a path forward which involves more opportunity in circle together between land-based experiences to explore issues and deepen understanding. They also include continued coming together Forum-style each year as a way to mobilize knowledge and curriculum co-created in classroom spaces. Finally, gifts point toward deepening participants' connection to a collectively created local resource site.

Authors

• Jody Dlouhy-Nelson, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Danielle Lamb, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Desiree Marshall-Peer, Langara College

• William A. Cohen, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Terry Lee Beaudry, Central Okanagan Public Schools

• Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, University of British Columbia - Okanagan