Indigenous-Settler Relations in the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Era: The End of the Beginning

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) published its Final Report and Calls to Action addressing the legacy of the ‘Indian Residential School System’ in operation in Canada for over 100 years. Since the TRC publications, K-12 schools, teacher education, and post-secondary institutions across the country have been acknowledging the Calls of the TRC, but have not meaningfully addressed the systemic change needed to move from beginning responses to substantive reform. In this session, we engage senior Indigenous scholars with three papers based in educational foundations (history, philosophy and sociology) that take up the end of the beginning of TRC directed educational change, and provide provocations for substantive systemic reform based in renewed settler-Indigenous relations.

Sub Unit

• International Aligned Associations / Canadian Society for the Study of Education - CSSE

Chair

• Lynn Ellen Lemisko, University of Saskatchewan

Papers

• Ally: A Scoping Review on Practice and Theory - Jonathan David Anuik, University of Alberta

• Policy, Programming, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Curricular Reform for Reconciliation - Gemma Porter, Acadia University; Denae Bruce, Lloydminster Public School Division

• Contemporary Colonialism and Reconciliation in Teacher Education: A Decolonial Gesture Through Ethical Relationality - Amy M. Parent, Simon Fraser University; Jeannie Kerr, University of Winnipeg