Project Team
Mathieu Feagan, Knowledge Integration
Leslie Wexler, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Vanessa Schweizer, Knowledge Integration
Naomi Paul, Research Assistant and PhD student, Systems Design Engineering
(Project timeline: September 2023 - August 2024)
Project Summary
This project pilots a two-row learning approach to working with Indigenous and Western knowledge relations in building just and sustainable futures. Through a three-part problem-based learning workshop series, 45 UW students will work in interdisciplinary teams to analyze a complex climate problem. Indigenous and Western scholars will support student exploration of sacred space, intersectionality, cognitive justice, intergenerational and peer-learning, as key concepts for addressing climate complexity. A questionnaire completed before the workshop series will ask students about their exposure to Indigenous and Western anti-oppression frameworks; evaluation forms completed after each workshop will collect feedback on student learning outcomes; and a final questionnaire will assess student perceptions of the value of two-row learning after completing the workshop series. Staff and faculty reflections will assess possibilities for scaling-up this approach for enhancing teaching innovation and shifting academic knowledge relations towards more inclusive and transformative practices.
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