ANDREA KENNEDY — PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR — SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY

Indigenous Elders’ wisdom and dominionization in higher education: Barriers and facilitators to decolonisation and reconciliation

International Journal of Inclusive Education 2020

DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2020.1829108

Authors: Andrea Kennedy, Katharine McGowan, Mohamed El-Hussein

While often discussed, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s calls to Action, and similar reports published over several decades, have yet to cause change in existing power structures and shift government or popular relations with Indigenous peoples. Surveys and interviews shed light on the social process of dominionization, the ingrained ownership of knowledge that upholds the privilege of westernized academia over decolonization attempts.

Indigenous strengths-based approaches to healthcare and health professions education–Recognising the value of Elders’ teachings

Healthcare professionals are often taught and supported in approaches that perpetuate inequity for Indigenous peoples; ignoring Indigenous strengths, disregard human rights, and reproduce structural inequalities. Identified are strategies offering a promising means to advance Indigenous health equity through strengths-based actions that change existing narratives and advance health equity.

Relational learning with Indigenous communities: Elders’ and students’ perspectives on reconciling Indigenous service-learning

Advances in Theory and Methodology 2020

DOI: 10.37333/001c.18585

Authors: Andrea Kennedy, Katharine McGowan, Gabrielle Lindstrom, Christian Cook, Yasmin Dean, James Stauch, Cheryl Barnabe, Stephen Price

The core purpose of relational learning with Indigenous communities translates to maintaining good relations through humility, respect, honesty, and reciprocity while responding to the interconnected priorities of the land, traditional ways, Elders, and common language. Study findings signal decolonizing opportunities for relational learning with Indigenous communities.

Nursing, Indigenous health, water, and climate change

Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse 2020

DOI: 10.25071/2291-5796.55

Authors: Darlene Sanderson, Noeman Mirza, Mona Polacca, Andrea Kennedy, R. Lisa Bourque-Bearskin

The lack of access to clean water for Indigenous Peoples and the marginalization of Indigenous traditional teachings that encourage water protection are two major issues brought on by the complex effects of colonization on climate change. In advancing health, nurses have an important opportunity to respect traditional teachings by noting connections between water, health, and climate change.