More Than Words: Indigenous Girls, Public Art, and Public Pedagogy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers are each focused on an arts-based, Indigenous girl-led projects in different Canadian regions, including an out-door mural, a community garden and a Facebook activity. The panel addresses the notion of public pedagogy which seeks to intervene into the production of meaning in public spaces (Chappell 2010; Sandlin and Burdak 2011). Echoing Giroux’s (2004, 68) argument for a pedagogy of public memory as a form of public pedagogy, the papers draw on the idea that public memory is not an object of reverence but is instead an ongoing subject of debate, dialogue, and critical engagement. The panel examines relations of power, privilege and subordination to make connections that are often hidden, forgotten, or wilfully ignored.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Marnina Gonick, Mount Saint Vincent University

Papers

• On the Politics of Making Public - Claudia Mitchell, McGill University

• "Creator Save the Matriarch": Muraling Young Indigenous Women's Utopias - Jennifer Altenberg, St Marguerite school; Sarah Flicker, York University

• Be Well and Stay Safe: Facebook, Public Pedagogy, and Inuit Girls in the Time of COVID - Marnina Gonick, Mount Saint Vincent University

• Growing Connections: Use of a Garden to Learn and Heal in the Context of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Linda Liebenberg, Dalhousie University

Discussant

• Mindy Roberta Carter, McGill University