Community Service Learning with NS 430/550
This year, NS 430 & NS 550 combined, enabling students to increase the range of their knowledge and analysis of Indigenous governance and partnership, and gain an understanding of community-driven research and/or project development in the context of Indigenous Studies.
Key topics included: ethical partnership and community-driven research practices; traditions and principles of Indigenous governance; activism and movement building; the politics of recognition, rights, and resurgence; reconciliation; justice, Indigenous legal orders, and conflict resolution; youth “participation” and grassroots organizing; and intellectual and body sovereignty.
Through a CSL (community service-learning) component, the course provided students with an opportunity to engage with a local Indigenous organization or department in order to experience its daily operations, and to learn from and collaborate with community partners on a research or program-related project.
The students partnered with the following organizations:
Pathways to Education — Edmonton
BearPaw Legal
The Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program with Memorial Composite High
School and Paul First Nation
iHuman Youth Society
Metis Settlement Appeal Tribunal of Alberta (MSAT)
Metis Nation of Alberta
Idle No More
Boyle Street Community Services
Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park
K’atl’Odeeche First Nation
Students presented on their work in panels at iHuman on April 11, 2018.
