The Complexities of Researching Youth Civic Engagement in Canada with/by Indigenous Youth: Settler-colonial challenges for Tikkun Olam—Pedagogies of repair and reconciliation

• Main Authors: Korteweg, Lisa, Bissell, Alex
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Society for Study of Education (CSSE) 2016
• Subjects: settler colonialism; Indigenous youth; participatory action research (PAR); reconciliation-as-education; decolonization; Education; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ojs-o.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CERJ/article/view/14

We discuss the first stage of our Tikkun research study that focuses on an indigenized approach to youth participatory action research in a northern Ontario context. Our research design began with an Indigenous youth-generated report, the Feathers of Hope (FoH): A First Nations Youth Action Plan (2014), highlighting the needs of Indigenous youth in their own words and experiences. Readings of the report has led to deep theorizing on questions of a university-based research model for indigenized youth participatory action research (I-YPAR) as well as our ongoing deep ethical dilemmas of settler researchers co-collaborating on research by/with Indigenous youth. We raise these issues as we theorize the possibilities and complexities of a pedagogy of repair and reconciliation (tikkun olam) during our reflexive dialogues as settler-researchers and with Indigenous youth.