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Through narrative inquiry into the experiences of a beginning teacher and her relational interaction with a principal, this chapter opens possibilities for understanding place as rural context in teacher education. The experiences highlighted in this chapter show rural schools as places of co-making an unfolding relational inquiry space and understanding the rural context as ongoing teacher education. Through inquiry into a beginning teacher’s experiences, this research makes visible the need for rural schools and education to be recognized as different from urban schools and education.
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Erin is a beginning teacher at G. F. Meyer School and a participant in the research project.
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The names of places and people are pseudonyms.
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Shaun, Lynne, and Janice are the researchers.
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Patti is the principal at G. F. Meyer School and a participant in the research project.
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The Frog Lake Massacre was one of the most influential events during the Cree uprising in the North-West Rebellion in western Canada. Big Bear, Chief of the Plains Cree in the region, sought improved conditions for his people through peaceful means and unity among the tribes. However, the food shortage after the near extinction of the buffalo left his people near starvation. On April 2, 1885 incited by hunger, a breakaway group of young Cree men, lead by Wandering Spirit, entered the settlement in search of food. Eight settlers and the Indian Agent were killed. Nine months later six Cree men, including Wandering Spirit, were convicted of murder and hanged (http://froglake.ca/chief-council/frog-lake-history/).
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As described in the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015), “the spread of European-based empires was set in motion in the fifteenth century when the voyages of maritime explorers revealed potential sources of new wealth to the monarchs of Europe. … To gain control of the land of Indigenous people, colonists negotiated Treaties, waged wars of extinction, eliminated traditional landholding practices, disrupted families, and imposed a political and spiritual order that came complete with new values and cultural practices. Treaty promises often went unfulfilled. … The outcome was usually disastrous for Indigenous people, while the chief beneficiaries of empire were the colonists and their descendents. … In the case of Canada and the United States of America, these newly created nations spread across North America. As they expanded, they continued to incorporate Indigenous peoples and their lands into empires. Colonialism remains an ongoing process, shaping both the structure and the quality of the relationship between the settlers and Indigenous peoples” (p. 45).
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Shaun Murphy, M., Driedger-Enns, L., Huber, J. (2020). Rural Schools as Sites for Ongoing Teacher Education: Co-making Relational Inquiry Spaces Between a Principal and a Beginning Teacher. In: Corbett, M., Gereluk, D. (eds) Rural Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2560-5_8
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