Co-Making Assessment as Pimosayta: Inquiring Into the Meeting of Personal, Indigenous, and Relational Knowledge

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Paths to Relationality, Reciprocity, and Restoration in Indigenous Education: Theories and Practices

Abstract

Our paper shows three teacher educator’s self-study of coming alongside postsecondary students in an Assessment as Pimosayta course, which was offered in two teacher education programs in Canada, and centred personal, Indigenous, and relational ways of knowing, being, doing, and relating. The course was inspired by Anishinabe Elder Mary Young who, through her stories and everyday living taught us her way of pimosayta (learning to walk together), which shapes possibility for all beings to experience pimatisiwin (walking in a good way). Centering Mary’s teachings supported us to explore assessment making as a holistic process sustaining children’s ongoing making of their lives in family, community, and school places; movement toward living assessment as pimosayta in post-secondary places also occurred.

Authors

• Trudy Michelle Cardinal, University of Alberta

• Janice Huber, University of Alberta

• M. Shaun Murphy, University of Saskatchewan