Résumés
Abstract
This article is based on findings from an anti-racist Métis/Michif partnership between the Gabriel Dumont Institute’s Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) and the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Education. The study took a local approach through a series of anti-racist knowledge exchanges amongst 16 urban and surrounding-area Prairie Métis teachers and teacher educators. Drawing from Métis teachers’ experiences, Métis studies, and critical race theory, the article disrupts Eurocentric conceptions of anti-racist education by centring Métis experiential knowledge. Through qualitative and Métis methods, data was collected from five workshops that revealed an initial Métis-informed anti-racist education (MIARE) K–12 flower beadwork framework. The framework demonstrates how specific experiences of K–12 racialization are transformed into anti-racism through Métis teachers’ intergenerational cultural knowledge protected by core Métis cultural values.
Keywords:
- Métis anti-racism,
- Canadian schools,
- Métis studies,
- critical race theory
Résumé
Cet article s’appuie sur les conclusions d’une étude métisse/michif portant sur l’antiracisme, menée en partenariat entre le programme SUNTEP (Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program) de l’Institut Gabriel-Dumont et le Collège des sciences de l’éducation de l’Université de la Saskatchewan. L’étude adopte une approche locale et s’appuie sur une série d’échanges de connaissances sur l’antiracisme avec 16 personnes métisses des Prairies, enseignantes ou formatrices, établies en milieux urbains ou environnants. En se basant sur les expériences vécues des enseignantes et enseignants métis, les études critiques sur les Métis et la théorie critique de la race, l’article remet en question les conceptions eurocentriques de l’éducation antiraciste en mettant l’accent sur les savoirs expérientiels des Métis. Grâce à des méthodes qualitatives et métisses, des données ont été recueillies lors de cinq ateliers — de perlage à motifs floraux — qui ont permis d’établir un cadre initial d’éducation antiraciste fondé sur les connaissances métisses (MIARE) pour les élèves de la maternelle à la 12e année. Ce cadre montre comment des expériences spécifiques de racialisation, de la maternelle à la 12e année, sont transformées en antiracisme à travers les connaissances culturelles intergénérationnelles des enseignantes et enseignants métis, soutenues par les valeurs fondamentales des Métis.
Mots-clés :
- Métis et antiracisme,
- écoles du Canada,
- études critiques sur les Métis,
- théorie critique de la race
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