Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (Journal)
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Book Review Biographies
No full textBiographies of the three writers of the book reviews included in this issue of CPI
Doing Theatre: Theatre Pedagogy through the Folktale
No full textTheatre Pedagogy holds that cognition is body-based. Through performance the body’s unconscious procedural memory learns. This information learned through repeated interaction with the world is transmitted to the brain where it becomes conscious knowledge. Theatre Pedagogy in this case study is based on the implementation of a Caribbean cultural art form in performance, in order to teach Francophone language and literature at the postsecondary level in Jamaica. This paper describes the experience of “doing theatre” with seven university students to learn the French language and literature based on an adaptation of two of Birago Diop’s folktales. In the process of learning and performing the plays, the students also understood some of the West African cultural universals of life which cut across the lives of learners in their own and in foreign cultural contexts
Constructing Paradise in the Western Imagination:: Reflections on Colonial Legacies and Developing Nations’ Tourist Industries
No full textEnhanced with a few of my original paintings, this essay explores various notions of a tropical paradise in the Western imagination. Secondly, it traces some of the implications for the respective people and country. The work draws on my personal experiences, research and study in several Western arts institutions as well as in former, European colonies in the tropics. At the discussion’s centre, are experiences and pursuits of Paul Gauguin, a noted seeker of paradise? The essay further explores how colonial perceptions and perspectives have influenced and continue to impact the socio-economic and cultural production of ‘tourism products’ in small island developing states (SIDS), such as Jamaica and some other countries in the Caribbean
You Don\u27t Have to Say You Love Me
No full textBook review by Rebecca Stares on the 2017 publication, "You Don\u27t Have to Say You Love Me" authored by Alexie Sherman
Red Hope Pedagogy
No full textRed Hope Pedagogy is education for social and political change. This collection of poems represents an engagement with the Indigenous scholars’ experiences and realities of teaching the truths that need to be told in order for reconciliation to occur. The writing offers a lens through which the pedagogy of Red Hope is delivered; that very space where transformation occurs, one in which the student and teacher engage in telling the truth regarding the realities of our colonial experiences. The writing intends to document, in the expressive format of poetry, the pedagogical experiences of Indigenous scholars as we negotiate the complexities and tensions of teaching the harsh realities of our collective history, and its ongoing painful legacy
Indigenizing Work as “willful work”: Toward Indigenous Transgressive Leadership in Canadian Universities
No full textAs Indigenous peoples employed at a university who are working to Indigenize it from within, in this article, we share our experiences, discuss some of our challenges, and show how we draw meaning and strength from Indigenous stories to ground us in our approach. We use Indigenous, anti-oppressive, anti-racist and decolonizing theories, Indigenous standpoints, embodied experiences, and emotive responses to make explicit the lived work realities of Indigenous people in mainstream universities. Through a dialogic approach, we trace one pathway for explicating Indigenous transgressive leadership in Canadian universities. In our discussion, we situate Indigenizing work as “willful work” (Ahmed, 2014). We call for a “strategic willfulness” as a constructive orientation, for Indigenous leaders to embrace, as we continue to confront the colonial, hetero-patriarchal and whitestream nature of Canadian universities. Most importantly, we underscore the need for Indigenous leaders involved in Indigenizing work in the university to draw from Indigenous epistemological and relational ethics in their leadership work, and to be strategically willful, interruptive and transgressive.
Introduction for Caribbean Pelau
No full textIntroduction to Caribbean Pelau by prominent director and scholar Eugene Williams, including summaries of the artistic and literary works comprising the current issue of CPI
