Conference Presentations by Jennifer Markides
AERA Symposium, 2019
My mother had a gift. A walking dictionary, she listened attentively. She would praise me.
Papers by Jennifer Markides
Werklund School of Education, Oct 22, 2020
Positioned by our different cultural backgrounds and histories, we come together as educators to ... more Positioned by our different cultural backgrounds and histories, we come together as educators to form an ethical space of engagement to discuss the complexities of truth and reconciliation in Canada. As an opening for our dialogue, we reflect on our earlier research—a duoethnographic reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action. We came to this work with little prior knowledge, and mixed feelings of nervousness, reverence, and responsibility. By sharing our journey, we may offer direction and support for others interested in beginning or furthering their own reconciliatory journeys. We invite readers to join in our conversations around coming together, negotiating collective responsibilities, making space for dialogue, and creating safety for making mistakes. As we walk together, we see this as a complex opening of possibilities, which requires continuous and simultaneous circling back and circling forward. Positionnées par nos milieux et nos antécéden...
Designing Intersectional Online Education, 2021
Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers
As a Métis person working in the academy, I have responsibilities to my community and my employer... more As a Métis person working in the academy, I have responsibilities to my community and my employer. There are times when my Métis values are at odds with the system. This paper serves as an introduction to who I am as a scholar. I outline my priorities and share the philosophical underpinnings of my research. I name some of the challenges that come from navigating identity and expectation, and I celebrate the partnerships that sustain my spirit and ways of being in academia. As part of a strong Métis collective, I am able to focus my time on things that matter to our community. These initiatives nourish my energies and allow me to advance other university-specific requirements in the areas of research, teaching, and service. It is a careful road to navigate and unique to the experiences of Indigenous scholars who are expected to bring their indigeneity to the forefront of who they are in their work. While research faculty are expected devote their time 40% to research tasks, 40% to t...
Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (TRC, 2015), a school board teamed wi... more In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (TRC, 2015), a school board teamed with university educators and educational partners to generate a professional learning series to support educators’ engagement with Indigenous knowledges. A research team that assembled two years later interviewed the learning series participants to explore how educators were navigating Indigenous knowledge within a Eurocentric school system. This research acknowledges the challenges of doing this work within shifting institutional policies and initiatives, the wider politics of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations, building intercultural understandings and community partnerships, and negotiating epistemological difference. The researchers — including Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples — echoed resonances with the participants that occurred throughout the data collection process and often spoke about the parallel paths of research and schooling — both historically used as tools of c...
McGill Journal of Education
Education for reconciliation is centered on renewing Indigenous-settler relations. In this articl... more Education for reconciliation is centered on renewing Indigenous-settler relations. In this article, two graduate students share their experiences as they endeavour to take up a praxis for reconciliation. Positioned by their different cultural identities, they join in a duoethnographic conversation, to reflect on their learning and to share their successes, insights, and tensions as they navigate various complexities. Through their reflective process, they ask: What might collective enactment look like and what forms might it take in education? As they journey together, they discuss the need for spaces that promote vulnerability and openness, and the strength of land-based and grassroots learning opportunities.
Qualitative Research in Education
McGill Journal of Education
Education for reconciliation is centered on renewing Indigenous-settler relations. In this articl... more Education for reconciliation is centered on renewing Indigenous-settler relations. In this article, two graduate students share their experiences as they endeavour to take up a praxis for reconciliation. Positioned by their different cultural identities, they join in a duoethnographic conversation, to reflect on their learning and to share their successes, insights, and tensions as they navigate various complexities. Through their reflective process, they ask: What might collective enactment look like and what forms might it take in education? As they journey together, they discuss the need for spaces that promote vulnerability and openness, and the strength of land-based and grassroots learning opportunities.
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