Writing as Witness: Doing Justice to Participants' Testimony

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Beth Brant (1994), an Indigenous writer from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, supplies both title and inspiration for my exploration of as in the public records of participatory learning and research. My approach challenges practitioners and researchers to a contemporary spirituality that does justice to participants' testimony. Participation, dialogue and are the spiritual principles of social in Paulo Freire's (2002/1972) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. exist, humanly, to name the world, to change it ... Saying that word not the privilege of some few persons, but the right of everyone (p. 88). This quotation strikes at the nub of a vexed question which relates to the often taken-for-granted privilege of writing that word. I have experienced a culture of silence around these spiritual principles of social in the case of the writer as witness. It often a person in the privileged position of researcher, teacher and policymaker who gets to write the word of participants and learner

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