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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Calls to Action"”.
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
… the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Call to Actions #28 and #50. Promising initiatives include mandatory courses, Indigenous cultural competency, and Indigenous law intensives. However, processes of social categorization and racialization subordinate Indigenous peoples and their legal …
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Writing and Teaching Curriculum With Relationships in Our Place: A Critical Meta-analysis of Saskatchewan Core French Curricula's Cultural Indicators
… Reconciliation Committee of Canada released 94 Calls to Action to address the legacy residential schools left on Canadian Indigenous peoples, as well as to move Canada forward in reconciliation. In education, there are seven calls to action related to legacy and four calls to action related to …
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An Indigenous Exploration of Arts-Based Reconciliation Education
… artists and one Indigenous scholar as co-creators through an Indigenous, action-oriented, arts-based methodology grounded in Keeoukaywin, “The Visiting Way.” Guided by first-, second-, and third-person action research, the study employed journaling, arts-based methods, storytelling, and a …
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Running Solo: Indigenous Teacher Identity in Roman Catholic Education
… and whiteness studies the inquiry set out to trouble the question; how does Indigenous teacher identity exist in Roman Catholic education? Following a hybrid methodology that allied critical ethnography and Indigenous methodology, three salient themes emerged: (1) Indigenous teacher …
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A Call to Action: How the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has influenced policing policy and practice in Ontario.
… an environment for reconciliation through the Calls to Action. The current research aims to examine how police policy, practice, and training in Southern Ontario has been modified to include the justice Calls for Action set out by the TRC and the extent to which police interactions with …
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The Withdrawal From Afghanistan: Impacts on U.S. Veterans Who Served in Afghanistan
… withdrawal from Afghanistan as it pertains to military veterans' perspectives on the purpose, value, and meaning of their previous military service, and the service of future generations. The study included 10 participants who had previously served at least one deployment to Afghanistan; …
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Class Struggle in the Climate Crisis: Strategic Considerations for Life-Making In and Against a Settler-Colony
It is vital to understand the climate crisis in terms of class struggle, using social reproduction theory and an intersectional perspective. This makes the climate struggle a struggle for life-making, and not for emissions reduction. I look at a cohort of thirteen prominent climate action …
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Queer Utopian Theory for Transformative Change in Theatre Organizations
Canadian theatre has the potential to incite social change but inequitable working environments within theatre organizations have hindered this prospect. The sector needs new frameworks to improve conditions for arts workers. Inspired by several scholars such as José Esteban Muñoz, Jack Halberstam, …
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The recycling of people from nowhere, from nothing, for justice: The paradox of policing truth and reconciliation in Western Canada through a clash of state-mandated systemic injustice and hegemony of Indigenous knowledge
… away. It personified justice system approaches to Truth and Reconciliation (TAR) through paternalistic performative measures, such as the bus painting, which resembles TAR but does not provide meaningful change to the complex social issues and inequities experienced by the two Indigenous Peoples …
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Non-profit organizations' use of the internet to tell human interest stories : a content analysis of non-profit web sites.
… non-profit organizations utilized the Internet to frame their causes through personal stories that illustrate the good works and acts of charity performed by the organization. A sample of 26 non-profit health charities' Web sites produced 344 "good works" stories that were coded. The study …
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Taking back the tech: an analysis of take back the S 2015 twitter campaign during 16 days of activism against gender violence
… a growing problem. This study explores responses to abuse of women on Twitter, by analysing the tactics employed by the feminist network, Take Back The Tech! (TBTT) to combat online abuse through their global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign. This study employs various …
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Exploring Anti-colonial Struggles in Nursing: A Situational Analysis of Indigenous Homelessness and Community Health Nursing
… Study Aim: The aim of this study was to critically examine how settler colonialism is embedded in nursing and how this influenced community nursing practices in the area of urban Indigenous homelessness. My research focused on community health and harm reduction nurses (CHNs) that …
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DocuStory & Impact Campaigns: Examining the Dynamics of Cocreating Change through Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is a prominent element of modern-day culture that affects daily life and has the power to create impact on individuals, communities, and societies. Media practitioners and scholars are beginning to develop and evaluate strategic impact campaigns for documentaries with social …
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First Nations Place Names from Cadboro Bay to Millstream
… 100 First Nations place names from Cadboro Bay to Millstream to answer: What are the First Nations place names for Victoria, British Columbia? Maps are essential tools in the on-going colonization of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Today, many First Nations prioritize restoring place names and …
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A Case Study Analysis of Settings Approaches to Health Promotion in Higher Education
… Universities and Colleges (The Charter) calls on HEIs to embed health into all aspects of campus life and institutional culture using a settings-based, whole university lens. In the U.S., where public health efforts often emphasize individual behavior change, this approach remains …
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Finding Their Chrysanthemum: Linguistic Representation in Children's Literature
<p>Children in America today struggle with finding themselves in the books they read due to societal expectations. From an early age, children are dictated on the correct way to speak and write in “American,” which can leave children and their home languages feeling unseen and dismissed. To help …
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The Kids Table: A Report Conceptualizing Youth Empowermentand Food Planning Methods Through the Case Study of theMattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
There is an ageless saying directed towards youth (young adults aged 14-19) that continues to define and dictate their lives. Youth are our future. Yet, many governmental and planning institutions overlook the prospect of integrating the voices of youth, particularly of color, within …
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Challenging Deficit-Based Discourse in Higher Education Through a Social Connection Model of Responsibility: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective
… Social Connection Model of Responsibility to discuss disablement and inclusivity in the Higher Education sector. This challenges Paulo Freire’s suggestion that only the oppressed can actualise their liberation by moving the burden of change away from disabled students: calling to action all …
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Professional Development in Indigenous Education: By Teachers, for Teachers
… and funding Indigenous programming as a response to the 94 “Calls to Action” published by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015). The actions of these school boards are a form of reconciliation. Within the Southern Alberta School Board (SASB, a pseudonym), there are strong …
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Faculty Perspectives about the Impacts of Implementing Indigenous Content at Humber College in Ontario, Canada
… Document Analysis (QDA), which then led to the Qualitative Interviews (QI) of faculty members who taught Indigenous content within their academic courses. The initial analysis focused on 180 course outlines from 8 different academic programs in the Faculty of Social and Community Services …
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