Remembrance across borders: A dialogue on one educator’s experience of studying Indigenous education in Germany
Date
2019
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Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
Abstract
This article examines remembrance as an intersecting site for Indigenous and German Studies. Attending to the practice of remembrance, it looks at learners’ relationships with different, difficult pasts as a way of teaching towards better futures. The authors—weaving together the voices of student and instructor—explore a future teacher’s intersectional experience of taking an Indigenous Education course in Canada while simultaneously teaching in an international placement in Germany. Examining her experiences of studying Canadian Indian Residential School history while also visiting Holocaust memorial sites, this educator considers complex questions of pedagogy, memory, and social change through a transdisciplinary dialogue.
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difficult knowledge, history, Indigenous Education, learning, remembrance, teaching
Citation
Morris, M., & Hanson, A. J. (2019). Remembrance across Borders: A Dialogue on One Educator’s Experience of Studying Indigenous Education in Germany. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 55(4), 360–378. https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.55.4.3