The only Canadian peer-reviewed scholarly journal on community-university engagement and scholarship. It is multi-disciplinary, open access and online.
cultivating land-based education1 that centres Indigenous knowledge that includes an unsettling of settler colonialism to support and honour the practice of land acknowledgements as it has always been intended..." #landacknowledgement#indigenousknowledge#education#landbased
It’s time for a new ESJ highlight!✨ This week we are sharing Jennifer Wemigwans and Lanna MacKay "The Haudenosaunee Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen Thanksgiving Address: Moving Beyond the Havoc of Land Acknowledgements"
"Considering the havoc that has been created by settlers through
the institutionalization of land acknowledgements, we look to Indigenous knowledge systems and practices that teach the necessary ontological orientation of relationality through the practice of gratitude with the human and more-than-human world. We imagine this as a way of
participation in matters that impact them and for education on their rights. While the UNCRC laid the groundwork for children’s foundational needs, the African Charter insists that this must be interpreted within the cultural and traditional values of the child (Oluwu, 2002)…
“The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (1989), ratified by every country but the United States, and the more contextually-specific African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the Charter) (1990) have vital provisions for children’s
It’s time for a new ESJ highlight!✨ This week we are sharing Shelley Jones and Kathleen Manion " Participatory, Multimodal Approaches to Child Rights Education in Global Contexts: Reflections on a Study with Schoolchildren in Uganda and Canada”
New issue alert!! 🚨
Let’s kick off the new year with the latest Engaged Scholar Journal – Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2023), fresh off the press! I can’t wait to share some highlights with you soon! 📖✨ Visit our website to start exploring it (link in bio).
Extended Call for Papers for Volume 10 Issue 1
We seek previously unpublished original reflective essays and research articles, review articles, reports from the field, testimonies, multimedia contributions and book reviews focusing on community-engaged scholarship.
We welcome contributions from community and academic partners, educators, researchers and scholars who pursue their work in collaboration with various communities in Canada and the world. Deadline - December 15, 2023
It’s time for a new ESJ highlight!✨ This week we are sharing David Peacock and Katy Campbell " ‘You’re Getting Two For One With Me’: Difficult New Sites of Community Engagement Leadership Within Higher Education”
the paper provides new insights into the struggle for recognition and acceptance faced by many community engaged professionals, most of whom identify as women”…