{"id":4878,"date":"2025-02-11T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/research\/?page_id=4878"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:41:10","slug":"dr-michelle-lam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/research\/funding\/institutional-research-grants\/canada-research-chairs-program-at-brandon-university\/chairs\/dr-michelle-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Michelle Lam"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class='post-4878 float'><p>Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Rural Community Education for Reconciliation<\/p>\n<p>Term:\u00a0 January 2025 - December 2029<\/p>\n<p>Phone:\u00a0 (204) 727-7331<\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0 <a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x6c;&#97;&#x6d;&#109;&#x40;&#98;&#x72;&#97;&#x6e;&#100;&#x6f;&#110;&#x75;&#46;&#x63;&#97;\">&#108;&#x61;m&#109;&#x40;b&#114;&#x61;n&#x64;&#x6f;&#110;&#x75;&#46;&#99;&#x61;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside><h2>Research Involves<\/h2>\n<p>Studying reconciliation initiatives aimed at educating the general public in rural places.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Relevance<\/h2>\n<p>Most education research happens in K-12 or post-secondary settings, but education for reconciliation is also happening through grassroots movements, collectives, non-profit organizations, online influencers, and more.\u00a0 This research will deepen understanding about how community-based education is a force for social change.<\/p>\n<h2>Supporting Rural Communities&#8217; Engagement Efforts<\/h2>\n<p>The research focuses on three areas of rural community-based education for reconciliation:\u00a0 1) rectifying the disconnect between what students are learning in K-12 schools and postsecondary institutions around the history and ongoing legacy of residential schooling and treaty responsibilities, and the void of opportunities for similar learning within the larger community; 2) the strength, capacity, and diverse lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples, newcomers, and settlers in rural communities and their impact on reconciliation efforts; and 3) the potential of social media to become a vehicle for learning, growth, development, and connection in rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>Reconciliation efforts must be built on the strengths of relationships, telling truths, and attentiveness to the particularities of places, histories, identities, and contexts.\u00a0 What is missing from many efforts to decolonize education is the opportunity for educators and community members to grapple with their own stories in relation to the larger narratives of colonization, decolonization, and reconciliation and supporting those efforts over the long term.\u00a0 By building on the idea that reconciliation is personal work, Dr. Lam\u2019s research will create space for individual understandings of personal histories, worldviews, identities, communities, and places.\u00a0 Then, by combining these individual narratives with relational and place-based approaches, Dr. Lam\u2019s research will enhance broader understandings of each of these levels, in relation to one another.\u00a0 Dr. Lam will use these insights to generate theory from community-based research that is relevant and applicable to other jurisdictions and countries that continue to be shaped by colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>The CRC features a collection of projects integrated in rural community-based education for reconciliation:\u00a0 disconnects between student learning and larger community knowledge (Theme 1); diversity of lived experiences around reconciliation (Theme 2); and meaningful engagement through social media (Theme 3).\u00a0 By integrating knowledge across these themes, Dr. Lam\u2019s research will provide a comprehensive understanding of individual, interpersonal, and community-based dimensions of reconciliation in rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>Like a table with three legs, each project focuses on a different theme of the research program, but they are held together with the overarching goal of deepening understanding of community-based education for reconciliation.\u00a0 One \u2018leg\u2019 explores the current and ongoing community-based education realities, to understand what is working and why.\u00a0 This first leg is focused on initiatives and programs.\u00a0 The second \u2018leg\u2019 is focused on identity and place as factors in exploring community-based education for reconciliation, weaving together Indigenous, settler, and immigrant stories.\u00a0 The third \u2018leg\u2019 brings online spaces into consideration, looking at the rippling impact of using film and social media to broaden understanding in online spaces.\u00a0 By including all three \u2018legs,\u2019 this research will strengthen understandings of current reconciliation initiatives in rural spaces, what factors are allowing for (or preventing) impact, how different identities and places come into play, and how social media and film intersect with these realities.\u00a0 Taken together, these form a timely and relevant research program which deepens understanding of community-based education for reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Rural Community Education for Reconciliation Term:\u00a0 January 2025 &#8211; 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