Mon, March 3, 2014 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM See description. free. Our pedagogy aims to use indigenous approaches to stories and storytelling as well as recursive
reader response to provoke future teachers to practice critical self-examination and self-implication
in the ongoing processes of settler colonialism, including the institution of schooling. The use of
reader response and creative writing exercises specifically aims to engage students in learning to
listen, that is, witnessing and commemorating the testimonies of First Nations, Inuit and Métis
(FNIM) residential school survivors as part of a larger historic process of revising the terms of
colonial imaginaries and nation-to-nation relationships. Our pedagogy pays close attention to
the fraught dynamics of settler students’ responses to the demands of “difficult stories”: we plan
for productive engagement of student resistance and defences through nested spaces of reflection,
imagination, memory and building future- and action-oriented relationships around the gift of
testimony. Our aim is for non-indigenous students to approach reading and listening to survivor
testimonies as a process of self-decolonizing as differently positioned treaty people.
For more information please contact Dr.Vanessa Andreotti at vanessa.andreotti@gmail.com
Monday, March 3, 2014 | 10:30 a.m.–12: 00 p.m. | Simon K.Y. Lee
Global Lounge & Resource Centre
Building 1, 2205 Lower Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Sponsored By: The WERA Global Ethics Research Network and the Centre for Culture and Identity in Education
Monday, March 3, 2014 - 10:30