Résumés
Abstract
Many educators across post-secondary institutions are learning about their colonial histories and the need to decolonize curriculum, learning materials, and teaching practice described in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action (2015). This qualitative study explored the meaning of decolonizing with a group of ten instruction librarians at a mid-sized Canadian institution. The project was conducted in the form of a learning program to offer the predominantly white settler librarian participants a chance to explore these topics. It provided an opportunity to document a learning process and a pathway to initiate change. A five-month learning program uncovered participant questions and interpretations of decolonizing drawing on transcripts of individual learning journals and a focus group as the data set. The program inspired a community of practice enabling the learning and unlearning essential to decolonizing. We report, from the perspective of two white settler librarians, on the meaning of decolonizing as an ongoing process that enables awareness of colonization, personal identity, and positionality and includes strategies librarians can use on the path to decolonizing teaching, collections, and spaces. Participant self-awareness surfaced a critical librarianship mindset where information is understood as a product shaped by cultural, historical, social, and political forces, and where we acknowledge that academic libraries and their information sources and systems are not neutral and empower specific voices.
Keywords:
- community of practice,
- decolonizing,
- information literacy,
- learning program,
- positionality
Résumé
De nombreuses.eux éducatrices.teurs des établissements post-secondaires en apprennent davantage sur leur histoire coloniale et sur la nécessité de décoloniser les programmes d'études, le matériel d'apprentissage et les pratiques d'enseignement décrit dans la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada: Appels à l'action (2015). Cette étude qualitative a exploré le sens de la décolonisation avec un groupe de dix bibliothécaires d'instruction dans une institution canadienne de taille moyenne. Le projet a été mené sous la forme d'un programme d'apprentissage pour offrir aux bibliothécaires participant.e.s - en majorité des colons blanc.he.s - une chance d'explorer ces sujets. Il a fourni l'occasion de documenter un processus d'apprentissage et une voie pour initier le changement. Un programme d'apprentissage de cinq mois a permis de découvrir les questions et les interprétations des participant.e.s sur la décolonisation en s'appuyant sur les transcriptions de cahiers d'apprentissage individuelles et d'un groupe de discussion comme ensemble de données. Le programme a inspiré une communauté de pratique permettant l'apprentissage et le désapprentissage essentiels à la décolonisation. Nous rapportons, du point de vue de deux bibliothécaires colons blancs, le sens de la décolonisation en tant que processus continu qui permet de prendre conscience de la colonisation, de l'identité individuelle et de la positionnalité et qui inclut des stratégies que les bibliothécaires peuvent utiliser sur le chemin de la décolonisation de l'enseignement, des collections et des espaces. La conscience de soi des participant.e.s a fait émerger un état d'esprit critique de la bibliothéconomie où l'information est entendue comme un produit façonné par des forces culturelles, historiques, sociales et politiques, et où nous reconnaissons que les bibliothèques universitaires et leurs sources et systèmes d'information ne sont pas neutres et habilitent des voix spécifiques.
Mots-clés :
- communauté de pratique,
- décolonisation,
- maîtrise de l'information,
- programme d'apprentissage,
- positionnalité
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