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Critical Historical Thinking in Response to Civic Protest

June 1, 2020

A blog by Dan MacKinnon. In a brief moment away from the computer screen, I read an essay by Jill Lepore in this week’s New Yorker that strongly resonated with the readings…

Episode 11: Kiera Brant-Birioukov

June 1, 2020 00:58:00

In this eleventh episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Kiera (Kaia’tano:ron) Brant-Birioukov, a Haudenosaunee doctoral candidate studying at the University of British Columbia. During their conversation, Kiera shares her perspectives as an Onkwehón:we curriculum scholar in relation to the 2020 Pandemic. They discuss some of the following concepts: seasonal knowledge, renewal, a returning to Elders’ teachings,…

Unlearning Flaws: Reflections on Living a Nonviolence Curriculum in Education

May 26, 2020

A blog by Natalie Wainwright. I created this word cloud before getting started in order to flesh out the concepts that Dr. Hongyu Wang presents in her interview and articles. After getting my ideas down, I decided to look at Dr. Wang’s work through Bastille’s Flaws, which speaks to my personal relationship to her work,…

Whose Narrative is This? Historical Thinking and Dialogue in Education

May 25, 2020

A blog by Ben Hudson. I loved history at school. I spent many afternoons cramped between the scratched desks of stuffy classrooms in old buildings, listening to my teacher, Mr. Crichton, sketch out the contours of the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Russian Revolution. On one such afternoon, the ceiling above Mr. Crichton’s desk collapsed…

Episode 10: Rita Irwin

May 21, 2020 00:58:16

In this tenth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Rita Irwin, former Associate Dean of Teacher Education at the University of British Columbia. During their conversation, Dr. Irwin shares her perspectives as an a/rtist, r/esearcher, t/eacher, and writer in the “Wake” of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She discusses some of the following concepts: slow scholarship, walking…

Episode 09: Timothy Stanley

May 17, 2020 00:53:13

In this ninth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Timothy J. Stanley, former Interim Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies @uOttawa. During their conversation, Dr. Stanley shares his perspectives as a historian about the invisibility of everyday racisms in Canada. He discusses some of the following concepts: the rise of anti-Chinese racisms, the…

Episode 08: Theodore Christou

May 15, 2020 01:05:35

In this eighth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Theodore Christou, Associate Dean at the Queen’s University. During their conversation, Dr. Christou shares his perspectives as a philosopher…

Episode 07: Jennifer Tupper

May 5, 2020 00:54:59

In this seventh episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Jennifer Tupper, Dean at the University of Alberta Faculty Education on Treaty 6. During their conversation, Dr. Tupper shares her perspectives on responding as an educational leader to systemic economic, educational, health crises as a community. She discusses some of the following concepts: living transitions as an…

Episode 06: Cathryn van Kessel

April 28, 2020 00:59:29

In this sixth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Cathryn van Kessel, also known as @DrEvilAcademic in relation to her work at the University of Alberta. During their conversation, Dr. van Kessel shares her perspectives on terror management theory (TMT) in relation to the politics of coping with existential threat during a pandemic. She discusses some of the following concepts: love…

Episode 05: Aparna Mishra-Tarc

April 27, 2020 01:07:46

In this fifth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Aparna Mishra-Tarc, an Associate Professor at York University. During their conversation, Dr. Mishra-Tarc shares her perspectives on the…