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Glossary

BEAR Framework

Pronunciation

Type/Context

Ideology / Approach

Short Definition

BEAR stands for Black Emancipatory Action Research, a framework aimed to engage community members as equal partners alongside scientists focused on the goal of Black people's self-determination, love, and healing.

Relevance

Its ideas are derived from an understanding of pre-colonial African experiences and lived experiences of Black people in the Diaspora.

Additional Notes

Further Reading

Akom, A. A. A. (2011). Black emancipatory action research: Integrating a theory of structural racialisation into ethnographic and participatory action research methods. Ethnography and Education, 6(1), 113–131. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2011.553083

American Sign Language (ASL)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Black Sign Variation (BSV)

CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens)

CART Captioning

CMS (Content Management System)

Creative Commons

Crip Technoscience

Disability Justice (DJ)

Dish With One Spoon

Dish With One Spoon Territory

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Do-It-Together (DIT)

Etuaptmumk / Two-Eyed Seeing

Inclusive Design

Indigenous accessibility

Indigenous cosmology

Indigenous data

Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS)

Indigenous futurism

Indigenous protocols

Indigenous science

Internet speed test

IoT (Internet of Things)

Oglála Lakȟóta

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Pedagogy of Peace

Transformative Justice (TJ)

Waqmitkuk (Wagmatcook)

active listening

algorithmic bias

anti-black sanism

anti-oppression

audio description

augmented reality (AR)

change management

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