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Publication Date: 2016
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The Morning after Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report: Decolonisation through Hybridity, Ambivalence and Alliance
Chung, Stan
Intercultural Education, v27 n5 p399-408 2016
In Canada, 2015 will be remembered for the publication of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report" which related to all Canadians the impacts of the Indian residential school system. The Commission invokes the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and uses the term reconciliation as a national strategy for moving forward. This paper employs an autoethnographic methodology and proposes that reconciliation might benefit by finding ways of confronting the Other within; I describe my reflections on a trip to the 2015 conference "Learning at Intercultural Intersections" at Thompson Rivers University. My social and cultural experiences as a Korean Canadian academic and administrator are challenged in order to consciously shift my own colonising mindset. Reconciliation in Canada will require significant personal, professional, institutional and sociocultural inquiry. What does it mean to discover the Other within? How do we walk with Indigenous peoples? How do educators come to be called ally by Indigenous peoples?
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Consciousness Raising, Multicultural Education, Cultural Awareness, Immigrants, Ethnography, Autobiographies, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Social Attitudes
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