The settler’s home through walking: Stephanie Bartlett, ‘Walking on This Earth, Finding Belonging: Ruminations of an Unsettled Settler’, Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 18, 2, 2021, pp. 212-237 | settler colonial studies blog

The settler’s home through walking: Stephanie Bartlett, ‘Walking on This Earth, Finding Belonging: Ruminations of an Unsettled Settler’, Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 18, 2, 2021, pp. 212-237

23Mar21

Abstract: In this paper, I contemplate my positionality as a non-Indigenous settler of Scottish, English and German descent. I (re)visit places that have shaped my life-journey and engages in a thoughtful participation between language, land and my positionality as an emerging researcher within an Indigenist paradigm. I consider Regan’s (2010) concept of the unsettled settler, defined as nonIndigenous people learning to embrace the struggle to face truths of colonialism and the consequences of the Indian Residential School system. Through photovoice and poetic inquiry, I reflect on my own encounters with the land and more-than-human relatives as a way to disrupt colonial assumptions. Ruminations, pictures and a collection of poems invite an exploration of the curricular implications of land-based teachings and reconciling ways of knowing with the land. By delving into and sharing my own personal experiences on the land, I hope to invite non-Indigenous educators to consider their own positionality and relationship with the land as part of their response to the Truth and Reconciliation (2015) calls to action.

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