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From the Classroom to the Bedroom: A Review of Language Learning, Gender and Desire–Japanese Women on the Move
No full textA review of Language Learning, Gender and Desire—Japanese Women on the MoveTakahashi, K. (2013). Language Learning, Gender and Desire—Japanese Women on the Move. North York, ON: Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications
Indigenous Knowledge Realized: Understanding the Role of Service Learning at the Intersection of Being a Mentor and a College-Going American Indian
No full textThe article explores the experiences of 13 undergraduate American Indian college students who served as mentors through a service-learning course while attending a 4-year, predominantly White institution (PWI). This chapter elucidates how serving as a mentor allowed participants to draw on three culturally-relevant persistence factors in higher education: relationship, community, and power. Previous research demonstrates that service learning actively involves college students and encourages them to build a connection and a sense of commitment to the community (Lee & Espino, 2011; Rhoads, 1998). Through a Tribal Critical Race Theory lens, the purpose and function of service learning is deconstructed and redefined to fit the needs of North American Indigenous college students. This article reveals that Indigenous undergraduate students tapped into their own supply of Indigenous knowledge in relating their mentoring experience to building meaningful relationships, to being a positive influence in tribal communities, and to recognizing that service is a cyclical power that positively impacts their collective role in society. The article details how relationship, community, and power from Indigenous perspectives are sources of persistence for American Indian students and how social justice-based, service-learning courses provide safe spaces for students to realize their Indigenous knowledge while attending PWIs.Keywords: American Indian college student; service learning; Indigenous knowledge>
A Cosmopolitan Outlook on Canadian Citizenship: A Case Study in Montreal
No full textThis qualitative study attempts to explore whether seven adults residing in Montreal who have lived for an extended period in more than three countries have experienced a shift toward a cosmopolitan perception in the formulation of their perspectives about their identity, sense of belonging, and citizenship. The qualitative case study was conducted through one-on-one interviews with seven participants. The data were analyzed, coded, and categorized into nine emerging themes. Conceptions of cosmopolitanism are outlined and insights on cosmopolitan education are highlighted. The results of this study call for future research to develop a proposal for a cosmopolitan curriculum that responds to the daily experiences of people in a globally interconnected world by fostering open-mindedness and intercultural competencies. The study is significant to educators, policy makers, and curriculum designers and international program developers. Keywords: cosmopolitanism; citizenship; intercultural competence; curriculum studie
Bush Cree Storytelling Methodology: Northern Stories that Teach, Heal, and Transform
No full textThe purpose of this exploratory paper is to introduce key aspects of Bush Cree storytelling methodology. In this essay, I provide a foundation for further articulation using a Cree worldview framework as an umbrella for northern-based storytelling discourse. The underlying current in this paper makes links to Cree stories that teach, heal, and transform. Keywords: Woodlands Cree; storytelling; methodolog
Finding Courage in the Unknown: Transformative Inquiry as Indigenist Inquiry
No full textEducators often wonder how to respond purposefully to vexing issues such as ecological sustainability, social justice and holistic health and wellness. The search for useful ways of proceeding can be addressed through engagement in the process of transformative inquiry, a mode of inquiry for educators that resonates with indigenous views and ways of being. At its heart, the approach seeks to support preservice teachers in their personal journeys towards decolonizing and indigenizing. Ultimately, these efforts ripple out to affect their future students and the institutions in which they learn, teach and, hopefully, inquire. Weaving poetry written from my own experience on becoming indigenist, with the work of scholars such as Manulani Meyer, Lorna Williams, Marie Battise, Shawn Wilson, and Gregory Cajete, I highlight salient aspects of transformative inquiry that can be particularly useful in changing the trajectory of both education and educational research: welcoming spirit, deep and generous listening, connecting to place, and finding courage in the unknown.Keywords: Transformative inquiry; indigenizing education; decolonizing research; teacher education; educational researc
Inner Landscapes: Transformative Learning Experiences of Canadian Education Interns in Greece
No full textThis exploratory study uses transformative learning theory as a lens to interpret and understand the challenges and successes experienced by education students who elect to teach or intern abroad. Transformative learning is a deeper-level learning that challenges learners to understand themselves and their world in new, more nuanced ways. We explore frames of teaching and learning from multiple lenses. Elements of the educational internship experience that emerged from students who participated in this study include initial apprehension, disbelief, and even fear; a disorienting dilemma or incongruent experience within the new school cultural context; a re-evaluation of their frames of reference, and a final emergence of more integrative, inclusive senses of self as “teacher” and “learner.” Transformative learning theory can serve both as a conceptual framework for understanding the experiences of students and as a means of suggesting ways in which educational outcomes can be better designed with a transformative intent in mind. We then present implications for teaching and learning and suggestions for future studies. Keywords: international experience; preservice teachers; internship; transformative learning; frames of referenc
Developing Teacher Candidates\u27 Self-Efficacy Through Reflection and Supervising Teacher Support
No full textThe purpose of this study was to explore the complex cognitive and affective challenges of teacher candidates in their development toward self-efficacy in their teaching. Twenty-two teacher candidates recorded their challenges and thinking process during the last six weeks of their practicum. Following their placement, they completed a summative reflection, in which they noted changes in themselves and described when or if they felt confident as classroom teachers. Four themes emerge as the challenge or condition for their self-efficacy: effective classroom management, successful curriculum planning and implementation, positive rapport with students, and supervising teacher approval. This research suggests that teacher preparation program educators can support teacher candidates’ self-efficacy by understanding the developmental stages of teachers, supporting critical reflection, and using motivational and descriptive feedback to improve practical skills.Keywords: teacher self-efficacy; reflection; concerns-based stages model; transformational learning theory; and supervising teache
A Framework of Creative Education
No full textThe purpose of this article is to propose a theoretical framework for creative education, which consists of three dimensions: initiation, operation, and content. I will first review the creativity literature in education, and then go on to demarcate three levels with several components that are necessary to a pedagogical practice for creative education from the perspectives of psychology. I then discuss the embedded attributes of this framework with further descriptions. Finally, implications for the implementation of the framework are also discussed. It is hoped that this work will encourage and enable more educators to take advantage of the existing literature and transform its insights into practice, thereby boosting students’ learning. Keywords: creative education; pedagogy; creativity; theoretical framewor
Reading Silenced Narratives: A Curricular Journey into Innu Poetry and Reconciliation
No full textUsing a life writing research methodology in this article, I seek to understand the complexities implicated in reading silenced narratives as a way towards reconciling internations relationships. To do so, I weave in the poetical territories of Josephine Bacon, Innu poet from Pessiamit, Quebec. I analyse how a poetic text has created spaces for reinterpreting silence[s], that journey into and beyond my whispered narratives as an emerging, settler scholar and curriculum theorist. As I tune into several layers of silences, I examine the pedagogical implications lying within public and intimate territories of silenced narratives and the narrative(s) of silence(s) in our various practices as educators.Keywords: Postcolonialism; Indigenous education; educator\u27s role; pedagogyFigure 1. A visual abstract is offered here as an alternative way to enter the space of silenced narratives of symbolic literacies (see Battiste, 1986)
An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Conversation on Fear and Learning
No full textTwo curriculum scholars of contrasting epistemological backgrounds engage in a complicated curriculum conversation on the subject of fear and learning. One author’s position is that learning is not only fraught with fear but also requires fear to be transformational. Furthermore, education is intimately connected to fear and unrest. The other author’s position is that learning is biologically adaptive, generally of benefit to individuals and pleasurable under natural conditions. Societal learning among humans occurs relatively quickly, though never quick enough to keep pace with changes in the environment. The dialogue results in newfound recognition of the nature and power, of our perspectives on the one hand and the nature of curriculum conversation itself on the other hand. Keywords: curriculum; philosophy of education; evolutionary biology; fear; learnin