Marginalized Urban Indigenous Youth and the Virtual World of Second Life: Understanding the Past and Building a Hopeful Future

Authors

  • Joe Cloutier Inner City Youth Development Association Inner City High School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v11i3.7322

Keywords:

Marginalized Indigenous Youth, Pedagogy and Virtual Worlds, Pedagogy of Emancipation

Abstract

A small independent high school in the Canadian West is using the affordances of the virtual world of Second Life to explore and reconstruct the colonial past of their students: marginalized urban Indigenous youth. The affordances of the virtual world make it possible to reconstruct the past, deconstruct the present and create a possible hope-filled future. This process is underpinned by pedagogies of engagement and emancipation on three virtual islands (sims) in the virtual world. The past was reconstructed and can be deconstructed on the Negan Tapeh sim. Negan Tapeh is a Cree phrase meaning

Author Biography

Joe Cloutier, Inner City Youth Development Association Inner City High School

Chief Operating Officer

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Published

2018-12-28

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2018): Pedagogy - Taking Stock and Looking Forward (Part 1)

Section

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

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