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Decolonizing Learning Through the Lense of Place, Community and Experience

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Presented by: Tracy L. Friedel, Mahtab Eskandari, Allyson Rayner, Kyle Nelson This interactive session seminar will focus on the potential and pedagogical possibilities of place/community/experience–based learning to act as a decolonizing force in teacher education. In this seminar, we will share the experience of an Indigenous educator who sought to work with a group of graduate students to understand how participation in place–based service learning could affect graduate students’ understanding of: a) local social and ecological issues (particularly those affecting local Indigenous groups), b) feelings of efficacy with respect to the work of social change, and c) motivation to be involved in such efforts. This research project fits within a larger strategy of the UBC–Community Learning Initiative (UBC–CLI) to encourage the engagement of students, faculty, staff, and community to work collaboratively on projects that seek to address complex community priorities in ways that also support student learning.

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2013-04-16

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44217

Unreviewed

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