Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning: Reflections From Year 3 of a Multi-Year Research Grant

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 12:40 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Developing Critical Consciousness and Identity Through Community-Based Research (Table 2)

Abstract

Educators in the central XXX region, are learning to negotiate the complexities held within reconciling conversations with their students, colleagues, and communities. To do this, they need: opportunities to learn alongside local Indigenous People, in community, and on the land; space and time to enlarge and deepen new understandings; opportunities to share learning, unlearning and relearning; and safe spaces to be vulnerable learners. Over the past three years, participants have voiced appreciation for the opportunity to come alongside Elders, Knowledge Keepers, youth and community members to learn local Ways of Being and Knowing. The grappling work, as they acquire new understanding, is not something to be acquired or obtained but rather an ongoing internal journey toward just educational renewal.

Authors

• Danielle Lamb, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

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

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

• Desiree Marshall-Peer, Langara College