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Date(s) - Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12:00 pm1:00 pm
Topic:
What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
The legacy of residential schools continues to haunt Canadians, and little is still known about the day and public schools where Indigenous children were also sent to be educated.
In What We Learned, two generations of Tsimshian students – elders born in the 1930s and 1940s and middle-aged adults born in the 1950s and 1960s – share their recollections of attending day schools in northwestern British Columbia. We will hear their stories be invited to consider traditional Indigenous views of education that conceive of learning as a lifelong experience that takes place across multiple contexts.
Helen Raptis is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria.
The series was initiated by the NLPS in response to its goal to fulfill the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action #57. This Call to Action asks all levels of government to provide education to public servants on the history of Indigenous peoples.
Brought to you by The Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools (NLPS) and UBC Press, in collaboration with Vancouver Island Regional Library.
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