Our next session will be held on Friday, October 7, 2022 at noon (PST). Will Valley (Associate Dean EDI, Faculty of Land and Food Systems) will be leading the session this week.
Starting October 2022, LFS Learning Centre will be hosting a new Lunch & Learn series on decolonization on the first Friday of every month at noon (PST). These sessions will be facilitated by Will Valley (Associate Dean, EDI at The Faculty of Land and Food Systems). These sessions will maintain the Lunch & Learn structure of being discussion-based and will have a short pre-reading associated with them to provide a brief context of the topic.
This week, Will Valley will review the Bus Methodology, an approach to develop the capacity to sit with the tension, complexities and contradictions that emerge when engaging with difficult materials related to decolonization. Further, he will talk about What I Learned in Class Today: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom, a research project undertaken at UBC’s Faculty of Arts that explores difficult discussions of Indigenous issues that take place in classrooms at the University of British Columbia. Pre-Reading:
- [Video: 12 mins] The Bus within us
- [4 minute read] What I learned in Class Today: Project Background
Join Will and the Learning Centre team as we embark on this new series that discusses issues of decolonization and how to approach these topics in your teaching practice. To register for this session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1
Follow the Lunch & Learn Series on the Lunch & Learn Webpage!