Keynote Address: Keeta Gladue - Indigenous Academic Integrity: Paradigms into Practice
Date: Mon, October 16th, 2023
Time: 11:00AM - 12:30PM
Location: Online through Zoom (please note that Zoom servers are not located in Canada). Register below to receive the Zoom link.
Presenter: Keeta Gladue (she/her) is an Indigenous futurist, scholar, and researcher. Cree + Métis, Keeta brings more than fourteen years of experience in Indigenous post-secondary education and degrees in multiple disciplines to her work as a consultant and professional in higher education. Her fields of research include Indigenous mental health and wellness, post-secondary education, and academic integrity. Currently, she serves as the Ethics and Process Specialist for the Research Services Office at the University of Calgary and is a part of the Indigenous Research Support Team. A recent TEDx speaker, Keeta seeks to spark change and inspire momentum toward a shared future of flourishing. “Only together can we make things better.”
Description: The Indigenous Academic Integrity project provides insight into paradigms and practices founded in shared values and parallel ways of being. Using a multimodal approach to storytelling, including oral, visual, and written mediums, this presentation demonstrates the formal rigour, validation, and approaches found within Indigenous paradigms that serve to caretake and protect the integrity of knowledge. This resource provides concrete practices that centre Indigenous academic integrity and stem from Indigenous theories and Indigenous research, and it focuses on the principles of relationality, reciprocity, and respect.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion have never been more important to our global community than they are today. The inclusion of new ideas, new perspectives and diversity of thought are the focus of movements around the world. The caretaking of knowledge is fundamental to every culture and every people, yet academic integrity is often considered from a single perspective, a western, often legalistic, and individualist perspective. With growing international calls to decolonize and Indigenize post-secondary education, this presentation offers insight into the values-based, collectivist paradigms, and practices of Indigenous academic integrity.
The presentation will outline the Indigenous Academic Integrity project and how it seeks to explore the many ways of being, connecting, and learning which support both Indigenization and decolonization in the field of academic integrity.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify specific themes and principles of Indigenous paradigms.
- Gain insight and examples of Indigenous paradigms in practice.
- Ability to demonstrate concrete knowledge on differences between decolonization and Indigenization in the academy.
This event is open to all KPU students and employees.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact academic.integrity@kpu.ca