Nous avons besoin d'un nouveau récit : marcher et l'imagination wâhkôhtowin

Inspired and guided by the nêhiyaw (Cree) wisdom concept of wâhkôhtowin, this paper frames walking as a life practice that can teach kinship relationality and help reconceptualize Indigenous-Canadian relations on more ethical terms. I argue that Indigenous-Canadian relations today continue to be heavily influenced by colonial teachings that emphasize relationship denial. A significant curricular and pedagogical challenge faced by educators in Canada today is how to facilitate the emergence of a new story that can repair inherited colonial divides and give good guidance on how Indigenous peoples and Canadians can live together differently. In my experience, the emergence of a new story can be facilitated through the life practice of walking.Inspiré et guidé par le concept de sagesse nêhiyaw (Cree) du wâhkôhtowin, cet article présente la marche comme une pratique de la vie qui peut enseigner la relation de parenté et aider à reconceptualiser les relations entre les autochtones et le Canada sur des termes plus éthiques. Je soutiens qu'aujourd'hui, les relations entre les Autochtones et les Canadiens continuent d'être fortement influencées par les enseignements coloniaux qui mettent l'accent sur le déni des relations. Un défi scolaire et pédagogique important auquel font face les éducatrices/teurs au Canada aujourd'hui est de savoir comment faciliter l'émergence d'une nouveau récit qui peut réparer les fractures coloniales héritées et donner de bonnes indications sur la façon dont les peuples autochtones et les Canadiens peuvent vivre ensemble différemment. D'après mon expérience, l'émergence d'une nouvelle histoire peut être facilitée par la pratique de la vie en marchant

Indigenous Métissage: a decolonizing research sensibility

This paper is a report on the theoretical origins of a decolonizing research sensibility called Indigenous Métissage. This research praxis emerged parallel to personal and ongoing inquiries into historic and current relations connecting Aboriginal peoples and Canadians in the place now called Canada. I frame the colonial frontier origins of these relations – and the logics that tend to inform them – as conceptual problems that require rethinking on more ethically relational terms. Although a postcolonial cultural theory called métissage offers helpful insights towards this challenge, I argue that the postcolonial emphasis on hybridity fails to acknowledge Indigenous subjectivity in ethical ways. Instead, I present an indigenized form of métissage focused on rereading and reframing Aboriginal and Canadian relations and informed by Indigenous notions of place. Doing Indigenous Métissage requires hermeneutic imagination directed towards the telling of a story that belies colonial frontier logics and fosters decolonizing

Living Ethically within Conflicts of Colonial Authority and Relationality

To consider more fully the contextual complexities of living ethically as curriculum scholars, we wish to attend to the various discursive regimes that effectively delimit and circumscribe research projects initiated in partnership with Indigenous peoples and their communities. The habitual disregard of Indigenous peoples stems from the colonial frontier experience. The overriding assumption at work in these colonial frontier logics is that Indigenous peoples and Canadians inhabit separate realities. The inherent intention is to deny relationality. Within the research community there is an increased awareness of the importance of including Indigenous people in the development of research programs related to their communities. We were invited by an Indigenous community to work with the community and school leadership to develop a research program related to student performance in mathematics. Through our work, we have come to wonder about the authority of researchers, the authority of mathematics, and the authority of culture. We have come to understand how easy it is to replicate colonial logics as authoritative and have encountered conflicts when resisting these stances. In this paper, we offer some reflections and insights regarding how, and in what ways, we attempted to disrupt colonial logics. Through our listening to the teachings of children and teachers, we have come to conceptualize cultural relationality as an ethic guiding our participation in a research project with an Indigenous community

Assessing Organizational Functioning as a Step Toward Innovation

Innovate and adapt are watchwords for substance abuse treatment programs in today’s environment of legislative mandates, effective new interventions, and competition. Organizations are having to evolve—ready or not—and those that are ready have superior chances for success and survival. The Texas Christian University Organizational Readiness for Change (ORC) survey is a free instrument, with supporting materials, that substance abuse treatment programs use to assess organizational traits that can facilitate or hinder efforts at transition. This article presents organizational change as a three-stage process of adopting, implementing, and routinizing new procedures; describes the use of the ORC; and outlines a step-by-step procedure for clearing away potential obstacles before setting forth on the road to improved practices and outcomes

Experimental Investigation of the Isothermal Effect of Pressure on the Enthalpy of the Methane-Propane System

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Volumetric Properties of the Helium-krypton System at Moderate Temperatures and Pressures

A modern version of the Burnett apparatus was constructed and subsequently employed to experimental determine the pressure-volumetemperature behavior of the helium-krypton system. Measurements were made on the -50, 0 and +50�c isotherms over a pressure range of 7 to 150 atm. The results of this work were compared to previous works and then combined with selected previous values to form an appropriate basis for a study of molecular interactions utilizing the Kihara intermolecular potential function.Chemical Engineerin

Manufacturing methods for machining spring ends parallel at loaded length

A first end surface of a coiled compression spring at its relaxed length is machined to a plane transverse to the spring axis. The spring is then placed in a press structure having first and second opposed planar support surfaces, with the machined spring end surface bearing against the first support surface, the unmachined spring end surface bearing against a planar first surface of a lateral force compensation member, and an opposite, generally spherically curved surface of the compensation member bearing against the second press structure support surface. The spring is then compressed generally to its loaded length, and a circumferentially spaced series of marks, lying in a plane parallel to the second press structure support surface, are formed on the spring coil on which the second spring end surface lies. The spring is then removed from the press structure, and the second spring end surface is machined to the mark plane. When the spring is subsequently compressed to its loaded length the precisely parallel relationship between the machined spring end surfaces substantially eliminates undesirable lateral deflection of the spring

Nous avons besoin d’une nouvelle histoire : la marche et l’imagination wâhkôhtowin

Inspired and guided by the nêhiyaw (Cree) wisdom concept of wâhkôhtowin, this paper frames walking as a life practice that can teach kinship relationality and help reconceptualize Indigenous-Canadian relations on more ethical terms. I argue that Indigenous-Canadian relations today continue to be heavily influenced by colonial teachings that emphasize relationship denial. A significant curricular and pedagogical challenge faced by educators in Canada today is how to facilitate the emergence of a new story that can repair inherited colonial divides and give good guidance on how Indigenous peoples and Canadians can live together differently. In my experience, the emergence of a new story can be facilitated through the life practice of walking.Nous offrons ici une traduction de l’article anglais, originalement intitulée We Need a New Story: Walking and thewâhkôhtowin Imagination. Inspiré et guidé par le concept de sagesse nêhiyaw de wâhkôhtowin, cet article présente la marche comme une pratique de vie qui peut enseigner la relation de parenté et aider à reconceptualiser les relations entre les Autochtones et le Canada en fonction de modalités plus éthiques. Je soutiens qu'aujourd'hui, les relations entre les Autochtones et les Canadiens continuent d'être fortement influencées par les enseignements coloniaux, qui mettent l'accent sur le déni des relations. Les éducateurs au Canada aujourd'hui font face au défi scolaire important de parvenir à faciliter l'émergence d'un nouveau récit qui peut réparer les fractures coloniales héritées et donner de bonnes indications sur la façon dont les Peuples autochtones et les Canadiens peuvent vivre leurs rapports ensemble différemment. D'après mon expérience, l'émergence d'une nouvelle histoire peut être facilitée par la marche comme pratique de vie