Conference session

Voices in the Silence: Métis in Saskatchewan’s K-12 system of education

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Stream
Methods in motion
Language
English
Speaker(s)
Carmen Gillies, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan
Session format
Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A)
Session Location
Salon 17/18

Three anti-racist Métis scholars will present their research focused on prairie Métis education on a thematic panel sharing knowledge of our innovative methodology of anti-racist methodology in Métis education and critical Métis studies. For too long Métis voices have been silenced in Saskatchewan’s education institutions. Given the absence of published research regarding how Métis are racialized, amplifying Métis voices shares underexplored knowledge that can strengthen how schools operate to serve all students in a socially just manner. This original work clearly articulates invisible racial power structures of seemingly neutral systems of education masking racial power imbalances in the Canadian prairies.