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      Wisdom as Experience: The Embodiment and Spirit of Métis Wisdom

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      Date
      2022-03-28
      Author
      Fruson, Dustin
      ORCID
      0000-0002-3024-9080
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The storied life experiences of three Métis Elders- Cort, Joseph, and Monica- are explored through this narrative inquiry and illuminate educative possibilities with respect to an integrated and lived notion of wisdom. Their diverse experiences reveal common threads with respect to identity, humility, perspective, and embodiment, which support understandings of how wisdom is relationally experienced and realized in a Métis cultural context. My research wonder primarily attended to the following questions: How is wisdom understood from the perspective of three Métis Elders and what practices or experiences support its embodiment and growth? What are the roles of aesthetic experience and community in supporting Métis wisdom experiences? All narrative accounts were collected through individual semi-structured and conversational style interviews ranging in length from 60-120 minutes. Understandings of the participants’ experiences were supported by a collaborative and relational inquiry process that ventured into the temporal, social, and place dimensions of the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space (Connelly & Clandinin, 2006). The stories of the participants fostered rich insights to how experiences might be integrated across time in order to facilitate a grounded and deeply connected self. The findings suggest that wisdom is an embodied experience shared with others, wherein relationship is deepened and the self transcended.
      Degree
      Master of Education (M.Ed.)
      Department
      Educational Foundations
      Program
      Educational Foundations
      Supervisor
      Murphy, Shaun
      Committee
      Gillies, Carmen; Saleh, Muna; Balzer, Geraldine
      Copyright Date
      February 2022
      URI
      https://hdl.handle.net/10388/13872
      Subject
      wisdom
      narrative inquiry
      Métis
      embodiment
      experience
      spirit
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