Stories of Empowered Alberta Teachers: Enacting Responsibilities in Indigenous Education

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dc.contributor.advisorPoitras Pratt, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorMeade, Sarah M.
dc.contributor.committeememberMcDermott, Mairi
dc.contributor.committeememberAlonso-Yanez, Gabriela
dc.date2023-06
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-10T16:25:25Z
dc.date.available2023-05-10T16:25:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-30
dc.description.abstractTeachers in Alberta are tasked with adhering to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015b) and the Teaching Quality Standard (Alberta Education, 2018) related to Indigenous education, despite having little formal Indigenous education in their formal schooling. In this action-based qualitative study, I employed a decolonizing methodology, grounded in the principles of participatory action research and oriented by critical pedagogy to explore how teachers are enacting their responsibilities as champions of Indigenous education. Using Photovoice and sharing circles as methods, the findings that surfaced in the data revealed that, in enacting their responsibilities in Indigenous education, Alberta teachers in this study are: encountering resistance and racism, embracing a pedagogy of discomfort (Boler & Zembylas, 2003), engaging in critical reflection and navigating oppressive structures in the education system. The methodology employed in this study can be replicated in future studies and could be used to develop professional learning for teachers in Indigenous education.
dc.identifier.citationMeade, S. M. (2023). Stories of empowered Alberta teachers: enacting responsibilities in Indigenous education (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/116204
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/dspace/41049
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgary
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectIndigenous education
dc.subjectdecolonizing education
dc.subjectPhotovoice
dc.subjectsharing circles
dc.subjectteacher education
dc.subjectTruth and Reconciliation
dc.subject.classificationEducation
dc.titleStories of Empowered Alberta Teachers: Enacting Responsibilities in Indigenous Education
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Education (EdD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudentI do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.
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