Workshop Details:
- Day 1
- 10:15 – 11:45
- Room – Catalina 1
- In French with English translation
Description:
Presentation of the cultural safety practices implemented by administrators, teachers, and stakeholders (both school and community) within a carpentry vocational training program that was offered within Innu communities and transformed to integrate language and culture into the training.
The presentation will also address the possibilities for balancing studies and personal life in construction training programs offered in Indigenous environments.
Relationship to Community & Collaboration
This presentation is a result of an ongoing doctoral thesis project conducted with two First Nations adult education centres and one school service centre adult education centre.
Presenters:
Julie Rock
UQTR
Julie Rock is an Innu woman from Uashat mak Mani-Utenam and a member of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation.
Katshishkutamatsheshkueu Julie Rock is currently a Professor of Indigenous Realities and Psychosocial Intervention in the Department of Psychoeducation and Social Work at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR).
She is also a researcher, and her main research projects are conducted within the framework of a concerted action on Cultural Safety north of the 49th parallel (FRQSC 2020-2024, https://securisationculturelle.ca) and an unprecedented project (MES 2024-2025) focused on the mobilization of Indigenous knowledge, realities, and perspectives in training programs for teaching, psychoeducation, and social work.
Currently a doctoral student in education, her thesis project focuses on the study of cultural safety practices to support the academic perseverance and success of Indigenous students in a vocational training program.
Ms. Rock has extensive professional experience in the development and implementation of programs and services intended for members of the First Nations. Throughout her career, she has developed skills and knowledge related to the fields of social intervention, administration, and education within the First Nations context.
Jean-Pierre Mercier, Ph.D.
UQAM
Jean-Pierre Mercier is a professor in the Department of Education and Specialized Training at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Having worked in Youth General Education and then Adult General Education, his research interests focus on literacy practices and the learning of adults in precarious situations, on the anthropology of writing, and ethnographic methods. His perspective is that of lifelong learning and education.
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