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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Indigenous Ways of Knowing"”.
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An áit ina bhfuil t-anam is ann a thógas do chosa tú (your feet will always take you to the place of your soul): A study of transformation through indigenous ways of knowing in a County Kerry Community
… inner life. This study illustrates how a group of County Kerry adult learners with visual impairment communicated an understanding of their lives to their communities through various arts media. Exploring their worlds creatively through six stage performances and preparatory workshops, over a …
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Widening the Sweetgrass Road: Re/Balancing Ways of Knowing for Sustainable Living with a Cree-Nishnaabe Medicine Circle
… have learned about it through twenty-eight years of ceremonies, guides this learning journey of an Indigenous way of knowing as it applies to the theory and practice of sustainability, a strategic ideal established to negotiate the complexities of human-nature relationships and balance social, …
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Indigenous Professionals' Experiences of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Contexts
This qualitative study explores Indigenous experiences of interprofessional collaboration in health settings within Saskatchewan. The study adopts a transformative phenomenological approach, using a critical theory perspective, to generate rich descriptions of the experiences of five Indigenous …
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Enhancing Misinformation Response in Local Government Communication: A Systems Inquiry with the Alberta Municipal Communicators Association
… (n=101) and focus groups with communication professionals. Key findings revealed limited access to formal training, inconsistent leadership support, psychological strain among practitioners, and underutilization of artificial intelligence tools. Participants emphasized the value of peer …
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Spinning a Web with Smudge Smoke, Bear Grease, and Moonlight
The body of work Bear Grease & Smudge Smoke consists of three artworks: Remnants of Transference, an installation at the Nickle Gallery; Bear Smudge a performance for camera shown in an online gallery; and Spinning a Web with Bear Grease, Smudge Smoke and Moonlight, an abstracted support paper that …
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Moving Worlds Through Moving Pictures: Exploring the Emancipatory Force of the Contemporary Sámi Film Industry
This dissertation collaborates with the insights of an assemblage of seven individuals involved in the indigenous film industry in the Nordic Arctic. Assisted by the qualified knowledge of this collection of film directors, screenwriters, producers, festival directors, programmers, academics and …
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He Vā: Possibilities in Moana Relationships: Pūrākau with five Pacific educators
… indelibly. My work reveals the vā in the work of five educators from the Pacific in their cultural-ethical practices that inform political practice and vice versa in the context of Māori and Moana educational and social relationships in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The participants and I use narrative …
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Cultivating Compassion: School Discipline Through a Lens of Equity, Wellbeing, and Decolonization
… in nature and fail to understand the needs of students who demonstrate challenging behaviour. This organizational improvement plan provides a framework to reimagine school discipline through a lens of equity, wellbeing, and decolonization. It is an invitation to look under the surface to …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
The field of Rhetoric and Composition traditionally centers the Greco-Roman tradition, specifically rhetorics and theories attached to privileged, white males, as the most important voices, while marginalizing rhetorics from other communities such as people of color, women, and queer folks. This …
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A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO NLAKA’PAMUX (INTERIOR SALISH) CHILDREN’S RESPONSES TO ONLINE DIGITAL CURRICULUM FEATURING NLAKA’PAMUX (INTERIOR SALISH) PARENTS AND ELDERS
… parents, community members, and Elders? Non-Indigenous people have predominantly directed Canada’s Indian residential, Catholic, and public schools. Further, curriculum resources used within these institutions have largely been void of Indigenous ways of knowing. This research demonstrates …
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Listening to our stories in dusty boxes: Indigenous storytelling methodology, archival practice, and the Cherokee Female Seminary
… into practice, this dissertation seeks out the ways indigenous ways of knowing, such as storytelling, can provide a heuristic to understand the ways our dappled discipline works to create community-based knowledges, and how these knowledges sustained through storytelling can recover the …
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Aliwa! A reimagined journey: A stage play and exploring a Nyoongar theatre text with pre-service teachers: An exegesis
Australia is home to one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world. Now, more so than ever before, government and educational bodies are recognising the importance of integrating Indigenous cultures in education as a means of promoting intercultural understanding and improving …
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Archaeology Education in Ontario: A Relational Inquiry of Indigenous Museums and Artifacts
Many sectors of society, such as justice, health care, and education, are moving towards a relationship of Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Ontario’s secondary school History curriculum, however, especially that which concerns the deep history of Turtle Island, is still almost exclusively …
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7Cs in the Anthropocene: Underpinnings, Processes, Practices of Moving Toward Creative Confidence in All We Humans Do in the Anthropocene
… abilities to define and solve problems in new ways, to think and explore expansively, to create and build. Throughout my extensive career as an artist and college instructor/lecturer domains, I have actively explored diverse methodologies to enhance the creative problem-solving abilities of …
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Indigenous performance politics: a decolonial perspective of performative works by Kent Monkman, Spiderwoman Theater Company, Rebecca Belmore and James Luna
Through a multi-dimensional examination of specific performances by Kent Monkman, Rebecca Belmore, Spiderwoman Theater Company, and James Luna, my thesis argues that it is possible to understand the divergent (and collective) ways each artist constructs culturally specific, contemporary subject …
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Journeying Through a Pedagogy of Peace: Creating and Translating an Indigenous Critical Pedagogical Framework from Theory to Practice
… only disrupted the world but also sparked a profound period of reflection for me. It became clear that my core values and beliefs, particularly as they relate to teaching and learning, needed a significant shift. The pandemic forced us to reconsider how we live, work, and interact with one …
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Activating belonging: Towards a critcial ensemble pedagogy
… shows school belonging as a key determinant of learner health and wellbeing. Teachers, and teaching practices, are pivotal in developing safe, supportive communities in which students can learn and thrive, where they can belong. In this thesis the high school drama education ensemble in …
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Who We Are Is How We Lead: Storytelling as an Intervention in a Manager Development Program
… leaders, yet studies on their efficacy or use of creative interventions are limited. Despite the plethora of leadership studies that exist today, research is still seeking to answer the question: what is the best way to develop leaders? This qualitative study sought to investigate how …
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Braiding Counter-Stories: A Narrative Inquiry into Sport, Indigenous Identity, and Healing
… physical activity, and education experiences of Indigenous post-secondary student-athletes in the Canadian prairies. In Saskatchewan, where Indigenous peoples represent 17% of the population (Statistics Canada, 2022), their presence in university athletics reflects a striking gap in athletic …
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Nursing and Nation Rebuilding: An Ethnography of Care in the Context of Indigenous Self-Determination
… policy, yet the health disparities faced by Indigenous populations persist. In addressing this discrepancy, this thesis addresses the different ways culturally safe care is defined, envisioned, and applied within health policy, Indigenous nursing practice, and within Nuu-chah-nulth …
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