Understanding Roles and Relationships: Teachers’ Work in a Northern Ontario Remote First Nations Community
This article explores how teachers negotiate their roles and relationships in a Northern Ontario First Nations community. Through a case study approach, utilizing interviews and focus groups with 15 participants, I constructed four categories: (1) pedestal people, (2) educational transitioners, (3)...
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ftjcje:oai:cje.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org:article/4085 2023-05-15T16:15:56+02:00 Understanding Roles and Relationships: Teachers’ Work in a Northern Ontario Remote First Nations Community Burleigh, Dawn 2020-09-14 application/pdf https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/4085 eng eng Canadian Society for the Study of Education / Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/4085/2885 https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/4085 Copyright (c) 2020 Canadian Society for the Study of Education Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 43 No. 3 (2020): Autumn 2020 | Automne 2020; 689-714 Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 43 No. 3 (2020): Autumn 2020 | Automne 2020; 689-714 1918-5979 0380-2361 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2020 ftjcje 2022-07-03T15:27:55Z This article explores how teachers negotiate their roles and relationships in a Northern Ontario First Nations community. Through a case study approach, utilizing interviews and focus groups with 15 participants, I constructed four categories: (1) pedestal people, (2) educational transitioners, (3) relationship builders, and (4) community integrators, for the purpose of explaining the ways in which teachers navigate their roles and relationships in the community and the implications for their work as teachers. I argue that community integrators embody an understanding of Indigenous approaches, centralized in relational knowing and being, and model a practice most efficacious for Indigenous student success. Keywords: Indigenous education, relationships, teachers’ work Cet article explore la manière dont les enseignants négocient leurs rôles et leurs relations dans une communauté des Premières Nations du nord de l’Ontario. En utilisant une approche basée sur des études de cas, par le moyen d’entretiens individuels et de groupes de discussion composés de 15 participants, je distingue quatre catégories : (a) les personnes sur un piédestal, (b) les éducateurs en transition, (c) les bâtisseurs de relations, et (d) les intégrateurs de communauté, pour expliquer les façons dont les enseignants gèrent leurs rôles et leurs relations dans la communauté, et les implications pour leur travail en tant qu’enseignants. Je soutiens que les intégrateurs de communauté incarnent une compréhension des approches autochtones centralisée sur la relation de l’être et du savoir, et modélisent une pratique plus efficace pour la réussite des étudiants autochtones.Mots-clés : éducation autochtone, relations, travail des enseignants Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Premières Nations Canadian Journal of Education (CJE) |
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This article explores how teachers negotiate their roles and relationships in a Northern Ontario First Nations community. Through a case study approach, utilizing interviews and focus groups with 15 participants, I constructed four categories: (1) pedestal people, (2) educational transitioners, (3) relationship builders, and (4) community integrators, for the purpose of explaining the ways in which teachers navigate their roles and relationships in the community and the implications for their work as teachers. I argue that community integrators embody an understanding of Indigenous approaches, centralized in relational knowing and being, and model a practice most efficacious for Indigenous student success. Keywords: Indigenous education, relationships, teachers’ work Cet article explore la manière dont les enseignants négocient leurs rôles et leurs relations dans une communauté des Premières Nations du nord de l’Ontario. En utilisant une approche basée sur des études de cas, par le moyen d’entretiens individuels et de groupes de discussion composés de 15 participants, je distingue quatre catégories : (a) les personnes sur un piédestal, (b) les éducateurs en transition, (c) les bâtisseurs de relations, et (d) les intégrateurs de communauté, pour expliquer les façons dont les enseignants gèrent leurs rôles et leurs relations dans la communauté, et les implications pour leur travail en tant qu’enseignants. Je soutiens que les intégrateurs de communauté incarnent une compréhension des approches autochtones centralisée sur la relation de l’être et du savoir, et modélisent une pratique plus efficace pour la réussite des étudiants autochtones.Mots-clés : éducation autochtone, relations, travail des enseignants |
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Understanding Roles and Relationships: Teachers’ Work in a Northern Ontario Remote First Nations Community |
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Understanding Roles and Relationships: Teachers’ Work in a Northern Ontario Remote First Nations Community |
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Canadian Society for the Study of Education / Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation |
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Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 43 No. 3 (2020): Autumn 2020 | Automne 2020; 689-714 Revue canadienne de l'éducation; Vol. 43 No. 3 (2020): Autumn 2020 | Automne 2020; 689-714 1918-5979 0380-2361 |
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