Slice of LIME 15.4: LIME Connection X Prof Eve Tuck Keynote Presentation

The tenth biennial Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network LIME Connection conference was hosted by Australian National University on Ngambri & Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, Australia from 22 – 25 October 2023.

LIME Connection X theme:
Decolonising education – through critique to transformative learning and teaching.

Decolonisation requires an interrogation of the processes, culture and assumptions of power. It is to seek transformation through education; to critique the replication of existing structures and ways of thinking. It is a disruption seeking to broaden thinking beyond accepted knowledge, practice, theory and research.

Eve Tuck is Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She is Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities. She is the founding director of the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab.

Tuck is Unangax ˆ and is an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska. She grew up outside of her community, living in Pennsylvania as a child, and New York City as a young adult. She earned a PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center, The City University of New York in 2008.

In this Keynote presentation, Eve Tuck will share recent work, and work done over the past decades, to consider the role of thinking together about our theories of change in our pedagogical and research practice. She will present ideas about how thinking about theories of change can be important not only in mentoring relationships, but also in our research collaborations with communities and youth. To provide an example of theories of change in action, Tuck will describe a new research resource, the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden.