Decolonizing Metis Pedagogies in Post-Secondary Settings ...

• Main Authors: Gaudry, Adam, Hancock, Robert L. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Journal of Native Education 2021
• Subjects: Metis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v35i1.196541; https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196541

This article asks how post-secondary education and scholarship can facilitate criticaland engaged reclamations of Metis knowledge through critical intellectual and expe­riential engagement. First, it explores dominant representations of Metis political andcultural experience in historical perspective, and considers these implications for Metisstudents and communities. This examination identifies a problem that we address byenvisioning models of engaged pedagogy, based on insights from author bell hooks,which draw upon on a particular stream of thought in Michel Foucault's later work.It concludes with a discussion of the possibilities of decolonizing representations ofMetis history and politics, through the exploration of relational land- and community-based pedagogies. ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 35 No. 1 (2012) ...