Many of us, especially in Canada, are used to having a host open a lecture or an event with an Indigenous land-acknowledgement, but I will declare this is the best one I have ever heard and it comes from Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, brand new Dean of Education at University of Victoria, Vancouver Is. (not far from my territories where I live now in Nanaimo, BC). Even if you listen to the first 2 min. and 30 secs. you get a good idea where this Indigenous-based thinker/leader educator is going and the spirit she brings to the field of Education in general. This is a real new experience for me and so timely! The spirit of fearlessness infuses this 2 min. and 30 sec. clip...
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Btw, disturblingly indeed, is to hear two guys talk about the exact opposite of values and processes of "education" (e.g., J. B. Peterson and conservative leader of BC here in Canada): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DBaehmNek
Let's talk now about these positions and their differences and conflict and how are we going to work with that-- "culture wars" by any other name.
A colleague emailed me: "I am grateful for the timeliness of this video!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the idea of “warm data” in relationship with qualitative research, especially heuristics. “Combining” is indeed what we chatted about yesterday and is so poignant in my work as an artist and in the PhD work. The “stuck system” of education is spot on for the Sage Handbook chapter…”everything changes everything.”