FooknConversation
FooknConversation
Talking about “Academicky” stuff with
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
Talking about “Academicky” stuff with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
Our Episodes
How are we talking about the “academicky” stuff that informs our lived experiences? In response to such questions, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook invites you to delve deeper into the lives and thinking of different public intellectuals, writers, artists, community activists, politicians, school administrators, and teachers.
Episode 68: Laura Madokoro
In Episode 68 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Laura Madokoro, a mixed-generation settler historian from Quebec’s Eastern Townships and a leading scholar of migration, refuge, and humanitarianism. Now an Associate Professor at Carleton University, she draws on the intersecting confluences of an...
Episode 67: Marie Battiste
In Episode 67 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Marie Battiste is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation, a member of the Potlotek First Nation and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan and one of the most influential scholars of Indigenous...
About
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a Professor of Curriculum Studies within the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. During their FooknConversations, he invites listeners to delve deeper into the lives of different public intellectuals, writers, artists, community activists, politicians, school administrators, and teachers. Dr. Ng-A-Fook is collaborating with VoicED Radio to host and incorporate the podcasts in to his online coursework at the University of Ottawa.
























































































































































Episode 69: Leyton Schnellert
In Episode 69 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Leyton Schnellert, an Associate Professor, at the University of British Columbia and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship. Our conversation examines his decades of community-engaged research with rural communities and self-advocates across British Columbia....