{"id":283,"date":"2017-12-15T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=283"},"modified":"2021-02-18T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T20:00:47","slug":"histories-of-indigenous-education-literacies-schooling-project-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Histories of Indigenous Education, Literacies & Schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Negotiating Schooling and Literacies in the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River Regions, 1600-1900<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The early history of schooling in Great Lakes Indigenous communities is poorly understood. Though there are rich studies of specific schools, teachers, and communities, little research has been conducted from a regional perspective, considering schooling within the context of similar developments within the burgeoning settler colonial jurisdictions of Quebec, Ontario, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our research partnership is between individuals, organizations and institutions who are interested in probing the contentious development of schools and deployment of reading, writing and print within the region. In addition to addressing histories of specific schools, we envision that this partnership will include people interested in how primers, prayer books, dictionaries and other written materials reflect the complex role that language and writing played within these educational settings. We are especially interested in how Indigenous teachers and learners used and adapted these items, and also in how they did not. The partnership will foster a connection between GRASAC\u2019s focus on material and artistic practices and the underlying context of contests over formal schooling and religious education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We held our first gathering at\u00a0Huron University College<\/a>\u00a0in August 2017, titled \u201cNegotiating Schooling and Literacies in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, 1600-1900,\u201d with a goal to build community among people working on the history of education and literacies. We are now working on planning our next gathering and imagining the scope of the project in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Negotiating Schooling and Literacies meeting, Huron University College, August 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Team Members:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Project Leads:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n