A SETTLER'S GUIDE TO CONCILIATION: A DIGITAL CRITICAL NURSOGRAPHY

Abstract

Relationships between Indigenous people of the land now called Canada and non-Indigenous nurses are rooted in historical colonial relationships between the monarchy (as Crown), the government of the day (as representatives of the Crown), and the Christian church (via the Doctrine of Discovery). In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called on all Canadians as Treaty people to engage in learning about our shared history as a step toward new, more socially just and equitable relationships. This is my response to that call.

Here is the story of a labyrinth-walking accidental andraheutagog engaged in pushing the boundaries of the dissertation into the 21st century by presenting it as a multimodal digital artifact, not a monograph. I explore pedagogy [the general study of teaching and learning] --tinkering as bricoleur as I blend in andragogy [adult teaching and learning theory], with heutagogy extending deeper into self-regulated and self-directed inquiry with a focus on digital or mobile learning, cultural humility, and nursing education. I use ePortfolio space to share my critical inquiry that considers auto or personal intersections [including but not necessarily limited to those] of anti-Indigenous racism, gender, power, patriarchy, religion, government, imperialism, education and nursing.

I look back into the late 19th and early 20th origins of Canada and modern nursing to better understand what led us to this place, this time as a profession [ethnography] and how that intersects with online advanced nursing education. My perspective as a nurse brings an essential element this relational inquiry creating this first example of digital critical nursography.