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Diane Patricia Watt, PhD
Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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October 14-18, 2013. University of Malta, Valetta.
2nd Annual Meeting of The International Institute for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership.
October 11, 2013. Visit to Montserrat School in Terrassa
(near Barcelona, Spain)
September, 2014. The Werklund Foundation Centre for Youth Leadership Education. University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta
July 14-19, 2013. Summer Institute in Digital Literacy.
University of Rhode Island
Friday, May 11, 2013. Hanyang University. Seoul, South Korea
Attending the annual conference of the Korean Association for Multicultural Education has been
inspiring. One of the keynote addresses was given by Jagdish Gundara (UNESCO Chair in Intercultural
Studies Director, International Centre of Intercultural Studies, London, and President of IAIE).
Although humanist discourses continue to dominate, there have also been some papers from post-
humanist perspectives.
Monday, May 6, 2013, Leaving Vancouver
This photo of Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands was taken out of my plane window on a flight from Vancouver to Tokyo. This is the place I consider home. As we fly over, I feel a strong sense of belonging/not belonging to this land...
"There is a great deal of grief and sorrow about place in Canada, about land and who it belongs to, about whose stories get told and which stories are to be believed. There is also a great deal of fear about what is happening to these places in nunakput, in kitaowahsinnoon, in all the places we call home. Ted Chamberlin (2003) asks if more than one people can ever call a place home. I don’t know but I don’t think we have much choice. A curriculum of place is no longer optional. As Andy Blackwater (Blood & Chambers, 2008), a Kainai elder, said: the Blackfoot are not going anywhere; the newcomers are not going anywhere; now the same peg anchors the tips of both.
It is not the grudge but the grief that matters, and what we are going to do about it. It is where we are that matters. By learning to do what is appropriate in this place, and doing it together, perhaps we can find the common ground necessary to survive" (Cynthia Chambers, 2008, pp. 124-125).
Chambers, C. (2009). Where are we? Finding common ground in a curriculum of place. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies. Volume 6, Number 2.
Thursday, April 25, 2013. Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, California
These two musicians entertained passers-by on Market Street in San Francisco. They asked me to sign a petition requesting they be allowed to remain there (I'm not sure who was trying to have them removed, but what a shame...). I love how the drummer uses recycled materials and his partner plays bass on an iPad.
Urban Funk Machine
Recorded on my iPhone
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