Réunir les systèmes de connaissances

A concept first introduced to the context of Indigenous-Western relations in Canada by Cree scholar and educator Willie Ermine, described as a metaphorical “space between the Indigenous and Western spheres of culture and knowledge.” Ethical space can be understood as an invitation to step outside of our own worldviews and assumptions and step into an undefined neutral zone that is an “abstract, nebulous space of possibility.” New possibilities exist because of our differences, thus ethical space is co-created together as we retain our autonomy and respect our differences. (Ermine, 2007).

Developed by Elder Albert Marshall, Two-Eyed Seeing, or Etuaptmumk in Mi’kmaw, refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing… and learning to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all. Other concepts or metaphors relate to bringing together or building collaborations between Indigenous and Western peoples or ways of knowing (Bartlett et al., 2012).