Unsettling Settler Shame in Schooling: Re-Imagining Responsible Reconciliation in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ryan Koelwyn
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 276-293
Description
Discusses “shame” in different contexts and explores the experience of shame for individuals and groups. Describes how shame was used as a tool of colonization in Indian Residential Schools and how it might be a transformative influence in the process of reconciliation following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.