Red Hope Pedagogy

Abstract

Red Hope Pedagogy is education for social and political change. This collection of poems represents an engagement with the Indigenous scholars’ experiences and realities of teaching the truths that need to be told in order for reconciliation to occur. The writing offers a lens through which the pedagogy of Red Hope is delivered; that very space where transformation occurs, one in which the student and teacher engage in telling the truth regarding the realities of our colonial experiences. The writing intends to document, in the expressive format of poetry, the pedagogical experiences of Indigenous scholars as we negotiate the complexities and tensions of teaching the harsh realities of our collective history, and its ongoing painful legacy.