Name: Teaching in Socially and Culturally Diverse Classrooms: A Case Study in Difficult Classroom Situations at UBC
Time & Date: 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Monday, October 26, 2009
Location: Lillooet Room (3rd Floor), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Description: What happens when classroom discussions of politically and culturally contentious issues become difficult, or “go wrong”?
What I Learned in Class Today: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom is a research project developed in the First Nations Studies Program in 2007 that documents difficult situations resulting from the discussion of Aboriginal issues in classrooms at UBC. This project asked instructors and students to share their classroom experiences in video recorded interviews, and to discuss the dynamics underpinning them.
In this session we will screen excerpts from student and instructor interviews, followed by a discussion of key issues they raise. This session will be an opportunity to begin talking about challenging situations that take place in the classroom around the discussion of culturally and politically contentious issues, and thinking about approaches to effectively address them. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own classroom experiences by way of further contextualizing the issues raised by this project.
Bios:
Karrmen Crey is Project Coordinator with the UBC First Nations Studies Program, and is of Sto:lo heritage.
Amy Perreault is an Academic Advisor with Aboriginal Student Affairs in Arts Academic Advising and is of Metis heritage.
For more information, please visit http://www.issuesintheclass.com.
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