Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (Journal)
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Strong Girls, Strong Women
No full textYoung Indigenous Women’s Circle of Leadership (YIWCL) is a Cree Immersion Program for young women between the ages of 10-16 and is housed within the Faculty of Education, at the University of Alberta. The intention of this program is to support the survival of Indigenous language, identity and traditional teachings by providing young women with access to language, traditions, ceremonies, and land
Roots to Routes: The Evolution of Jamaica’s National Dance Theatre Company and the School of Dance, Edna Manley College
No full textPresented as a retrospective dialogue between the two co-authors, this essay highlights the history of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), and the Visual and Performing Arts School of Dance, Edna Manley College (EMCVPA). The essay traces the post-independence evolution of modern dance in Jamaica. Furthermore, it examines the intersections, the respective roles, functions and contributions of the two major institutions which have shaped Jamaica’s distinctive, modern dance teaching and public performances. By concentrating on their lived experiences, the co-authors explore themes of identity, educational modern dance’s history and philosophies, and Jamaican dance’s cultural and aesthetic dimensions. Finally, the essay invites a reimagining of the Caribbean contemporary dance which values folk, traditional and popular dance as sources for art and scholarship
Design Thinking and Empowerment of Students in Trinidad and Tobago
No full textThis article highlights a study in which critical pedagogy was introduced through design thinking strategies to primary school students in rural Trinidad and Tobago. By encouraging interactive discussions between students and instructors, the overarching objective was achieved. In order to build students’ critical awareness, agency and empowerment, during three weeks in a summer camp, the students and instructors engaged actively, in repeated dialogues concerning student rights, media bias, change, and utopian ideas for a better future. As the process unfolded, the students took more control of their learning. They identified and suggested solutions for community problems. The case study demonstrated that student-centred strategies which foster critical awareness and development of social consciousness, can be successfully implemented in schools with limited resources
"She Opened Windows": Edna Manley and Jamaican Literature
No full textEdna Manley has been acclaimed for her contribution to Jamaican culture and social consciousness by way of her work as an artist, mainly in sculpture, and her influence, by example and by guidance, on emerging artists in her time. However, that contribution to the emergence of the “new,” pre-Independence Jamaica, must also include what she did for the development of Jamaican literature, although she was not herself a creative writer. In this regard, she made her contribution by way of her influence on, encouragement of, and practical assistance to emerging writers, such as poets H. D. Carberry, A. L. Hendriks, Kenneth Ingram and M. G. Smith, and novelists Roger Mais and Vic Reid. This essay recognizes the roles of her informal soirées at her home. Those writers who did not attend the soirées, would nonetheless seek her comments on their manuscripts. Then there was her founding and editing of the history-making literary journal-anthology Focus. In addition, a few poems by some of the poets were inspired by particular sculptures of hers
I am the emu
No full textAn ink drawing and verse describing Melita Hogarth\u27s story as one of the emerging narratives in Indigenous history and the efforts of the Aboriginal peoples in Australia to claim their identity and place in the land
Where is Cultural Safety in Education?
No full textThree nurse researchers came together in 2015 to conduct a study focusing on Indigenous learning within a Nurse Practitioner program in Canada. This work unfolds here as a series. The first, brings to the fore the researchers’ relationship with the research answering the question “Who am I in relation to the Research?” This is followed by an account of the research, “A call to action: Faculty perspectives of cultural safety within a nurse practitioner curriculum.” Coming to know the researchers’ experiences within the context of nursing education, practice and their personal life experiences became a vital activity, one that would drive and instigate the overall research endeavour. Through this integral process the researchers functioned also as participants where analysis was both self-interpretative and hermeneutic. Preunderstandings molded through societal, cultural and historical forces interconnected with meanings of Indigenous methodology. Unearthing root assumptions through critical dialogues and stories was found to illuminate embedded world-views that challenged pervasive colonial perceptions critical to understanding the interwoven nature of cultural safety and reconciliation. This writing may be of high interest for researchers and educators wishing to create and sustain culturally safe spaces in practice and learning environments
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
No full textCall for Submissions for a CPI Special Issue exploring how minoritized groups address systemic restrictions and man-made forms of oppression by demonstrating strength, creativity, resilience, agency, and indomitable spirits
Viola Desmond’s Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land
No full textBook review of Graham Reynold\u27s 2016 history of Black Canadians in Nova Scotia with an account of Anti-Black oppression and Black resistance in Canada