Teaching Indigenous Literatures for Decolonization: Challenging Learning, Learning to Challenge
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Abstract
This paper examines the significance of colonial contexts that influence the teaching of Indigenous literatures. It draws upon conversations I held with Indigenous writers and with secondary educators, in which we discussed the relationships between Indigenous communities, Indigenous literatures, and classroom teaching in Canada. In dialogue with teachers’ and authors’ perspectives, this paper argues that, when Indigenous stories are told and taught, readers are invited to challenge colonial understandings and are implicated into challenging classroom experiences. The pedagogical experiences precipitated by Indigenous literatures can be difficult for teachers and students, leading to unsettling dynamics, but are importantly decolonizing. Keywords: Indigenous literatures, Indigenous education, decolonization, resurgence, métissage Cet article examine la signification des contextes coloniaux qui influencent l’enseignement des littératures autochtones. Il puise dans des conversations que j’ai eues avec des écrivains autochtones et des enseignants du secondaire au cours desquelles nous avons discuté des rapports entre les communautés autochtones, les littératures autochtones et l’enseignement en classe au Canada. S’appuyant sur les perspectives des enseignants et des auteurs, l’article soutient que lorsqu’on raconte ou qu’on enseigne des récits autochtones, on invite les lecteurs à remettre en question des perspectives coloniales et à participer à des expériences stimulantes en classe. Les expériences pédagogiques précipitées par les littératures autochtones peuvent s’avérer difficiles pour les enseignants et les élèves, et une dynamique perturbante peut en découler, mais leur rôle dans la décolonisation est important. Mots clés: littératures autochtones; éducation autochtone; décolonisation; résurgence; métissage
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.051 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".