Watch: “Decolonizing Higher Education Internationally” (panel)
Decolonizing Higher Education Internationally
“The enduring educational challenges of setting horizons of hope beyond modern-colonial imaginaries” by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti (UBC)
“What Does it Take to Decolonize Palestinian Higher Education? ” by André Elias Mazawi
“Youth Activism and Academia as Public Sphere” by Handel Kashope Wright.
Canadian Multicultural Education After the Death of Multiculturalism by Handel Wright
This session presents two tales of Canadian multiculturalism in general and multicultural education in particular. The invitation is for us to consider what the future of diversity education ought to be locally and nationally given the contradictory state of affairs of complacently hegemonic Canadian multiculturalism and multicultural education on the one hand and passé, challenged and undermined multiculturalism and multicultural education on the other.
Nationalism as Identification and Division Introducing Rhetorical Analysis in the Teacher Education Curriculum
In this presentation Dr. Kris Rutten discusses what we can learn from ‘new rhetoric‘ (focusing on the work of the American rhetorician Kenneth Burke [1897-1993]) about (national) identity and explores how nationalism can be taught from such a rhetorical perspective. Despite the ‘deconstruction’ of Nation(alism) as a Grand Narrative and its relation to education, there is a new tendency towards emphasizing national identity, caused by trends such as globalization and multiculturalism. In the language and literature teaching curriculum, this paradoxical situation often causes friction for teachers who are very often expected to teach standard language and national literature. Dr. Rutten’s claim is that rhetoric is a possible tool to deal with these tensions in the curriculum. He will focus on the rhetorical construction of Flanders, Belgium, as a case-study and will argue that Burke’s concepts are useful tools to make students ‘symbol-wise’: to understand the way national symbols work, and to develop critical engagement with, as well as on behalf of, those symbols.
The Freire Project talks to Handel Wright
Interview with Handel Wright –CCIE Director, Handel Wright talks to the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy about interculturalism versus multiculturalism, youth in Canada, USA and Europe, his relationship with Project founder Joe Kincheloe and critical pedagogy’s influence on his own work. (10 June, 2009)
Watch: “Creating a Multicultural Nation: The Educational Role of Media” by Professor Ien Ang
The featured speaker is Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney. In this presentation, Professor Ang explores the constructive role that media can play in promoting the creation of a multicultural nation.
Watch: “Integrative Anti-Racism Alternative” by Professor George Sefa Dei
Keynote Address at the “Multiculturalism With(out) Guarantees: The Integrative Anti-Racism Alternative” University of British Columbia, Vancouver. (April 2, 2007). The keynote speaker is Professor George Sefa Dei. In this keynote address, Professor Dei offers offers some critical points in theorizing “integrative anti-racism,” as well as draws attention to the pressing need for new questions in the field of anti-racism.
Watch: “Changing Nature of Australian Multiculturalism” by Dr. Siri Gamage
The featured speaker is Dr. Siri Gamage, University of New England, Australia. In this lecture, Dr. Gamage focuses on how Australian multiculturalism and associated political discourses and policies have undergone substantial changes in emphasis and direction in the last decade compared to the previous decades under the liberal-nation federal government.