Unsettling Settler Spaces Toward an Ethos of Reconciliation: Engaging With the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report

• In Event: 16.018 - Confronting the Past in Transnational Textbooks, Schooling, and Curriculum

Abstract

What might happen if educators were to unsettle their notions of difference, and thus change how they might engage with the world(s) they inhabit on a daily basis? What might it be like if educators connected with the world topologically, in such a way that extends beyond that which can be immediately seen, touched, or measured? This paper is a thought experiment via Arendt as well as Deleuze and Guattari that aims to provide a re-conceptualization of engagement, which provides a generative way of rethinking curriculum and pedagogy inside and outside the classroom. This paper focuses on an engagement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's executive report as a document of trauma and as a site of learning.

Author

• Adriana Boffa, University of Alberta