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- Title
WITNESSING THE WALKING WITH OUR SISTERS EXHIBIT/MEMORIAL: LEARNING FROM TRAUMA.
- Authors
Desmoulins, Leisa
- Abstract
This article reports on a recent study into volunteers' experiences in learning from the Walking With Our Sisters (WWOS) commemorative exhibit to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The study is grounded in Indigenous pedagogical possibilities of educational transformations within the context of learning from Indigenous commemorative exhibits that tell the hard truths of colonization (Lonetree, 2009) through visual testimony and witnessing of the stories of Indigenous Peoples. Bearing witness responds to the call of testimony to act for justice (Laub, 1992). Interviews with 15 participants at a site of the WWOS touring commemoration provided insights into a learning process of remembrance, embodied knowing, and acting for change. Engaging with WWOS reshaped participants' relationships to events and people in the past as transformative learning. Participants formed generative relationships and acted for justice for Indigenous women and girls today.
- Subjects
INDIGENOUS women; SISTERS; LEARNING; INDIGENOUS peoples; TRANSFORMATIVE learning; EXHIBITIONS
- Publication
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
0835-4944
- Publication type
Article