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How are we talking about the “academicky” stuff that informs our lived experiences? In response to such questions, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook invites you to delve deeper into the lives and...
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How are we talking about the “academicky” stuff that informs our lived experiences? In response to such questions, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook invites you to delve deeper into the lives and thinking of different public intellectuals, writers, artists, community activists, politicians, school administrators, and teachers.
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” Stuff
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” Stuff
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17 OCT 2025 · In Episode 67 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marie-battiste is a citizen of the https://micmac-nsn.gov/, a member of the https://potlotek.ca/ and the https://nativeamerica.travel/tribes/aroostook-band-of-micmacs in Maine. She is Professor Emerita at the https://www.usask.ca/ and one of the most influential scholars of Indigenous education in Canada. Her groundbreaking scholarship has advanced the work of https://www.ubcpress.ca/decolonizing-education, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-77751-1_28, and protecting Indigenous knowledges, shaping curriculum studies and educational policy across the country. applewebdata://E4505791-7485-4E2B-850A-66D2F794B808/University%20of%20Saskatchewan has authored several books such as but not limited https://www.ubcpress.ca/decolonizing-education, co-authored https://www.ubcpress.ca/protecting-indigenous-knowledge-and-heritage and https://www.ubcpress.ca/protecting-indigenous-knowledge-and-heritage-new-edition with Dr. James (Sakej) Henderson, and edited several collections including https://nimbus.ca/store/living-treaties-narrating-mikmaw-treaty-relations.html. Over her career, she has published more than 80 essays and reports, and her contributions have been recognized with six honorary degrees, election as a https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows, and numerous national and community distinctions. We discussed the following: The central role that her Mi’kma’ki/Unama’ki homeland has made in relation to scholarship, the intergenerational impact of settler colonial government policies of forced displacement and residential schooling on families and community life, graduate studies, career and family transitions, language revitalization through Mi’kmaw literacy and curriculum-making, cognitive imperialism, cognitive justice, restoration of Indigenous knowledge systems, influence of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement, treaty education, and how https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70768 to law, knowledge creation, and education remain foundational to https://uregina.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/dc774219-b17a-46d1-84c4-5f222726b885/content, and advocates for rethinking university reward systems toward valuing Indigenous knowledge outside Eurocentric peer-review metrics and stresses our ethical responsibilities to protect land, water, air, each other, and more-than-human-kin.
8 SEP 2025 · https://www.mcgill.ca/education/philip-howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at https://www.mcgill.ca/education/, where he explores the social formations, pedagogical processes, and epistemological frameworks that shape how we understand ourselves, form identities, and exercise agency in the context of https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714413.2014.958379#d1e123, file:///Users/nng-a-fook/Desktop/FooknConversation%20Philip%20Howard%202025/Performing%20postracialism, and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504630.2017.1281113. Dr. Howard’s recent projects include an examination of contemporary Canadian https://rose-quillfish-kkkw.squarespace.com/ as a file:///Users/nng-a-fook/Desktop/FooknConversation%20Philip%20Howard%202025/Performing%20postracialism; https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/topia-2023-0045, agency, and https://rose-quillfish-kkkw.squarespace.com/ in educational https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2019.1614879 across Toronto, Halifax, and Montreal; and broader questions of https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19408447251334610 and its presence in Canada. We discussed the following: https://www.isatt.net/conferences/ at Glasgow University, British Empire and transatlantic slave trade, historical injustices and public memory, cosmetic versus substantive transformational change, post-2020 anti-Black racisms, file:///Users/nng-a-fook/Desktop/FooknConversation%20Philip%20Howard%202025/Performing%20postracialism, file:///Users/nng-a-fook/Desktop/FooknConversation%20Philip%20Howard%202025/Performing%20postracialism, cyclical backlash, https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/topia-2023-0045, freedom movements, settler colonialism and higher education, Sylvia Wynter’s https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/topia-2023-0045 of the human in response to settler colonial logics, possibilities and limitations of institutionalizing https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19408447251334610, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19408447251334610, historical consciousness and the archive, epistemologies of ignorance, and so much more.
10 JUN 2025 · In Episode 65 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews https://coehs.unm.edu/faculty-staff/profiles/burns-james.html an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at the https://www.unm.edu/. Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, https://coehs.unm.edu/faculty-staff/profiles/burns-james.html was an Associate Professor in the https://case.fiu.edu/sehd/ at https://www.fiu.edu/ and an Assistant Professor at https://www.sdstate.edu/. His research interests include https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68523-6_2, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68523-6_1, https://www.routledge.com/Curriculum-and-the-Problem-of-Violence-Biopolitics-Truth-History-and-Fascism/Burns/p/book/9781032303703?srsltid=AfmBOorpobFAP83DoEgvhxYfZwJTum84BPlhGcWBiXnH6puncxq9plu3, https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HcjhEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1984&ots=emjVeDw8Tu&sig=E53uf6Nw53IURvWW6cWFxxwrpCc&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false, https://www.routledge.com/Curriculum-and-the-Problem-of-Violence-Biopolitics-Truth-History-and-Fascism/Burns/p/book/9781032303703?srsltid=AfmBOorpobFAP83DoEgvhxYfZwJTum84BPlhGcWBiXnH6puncxq9plu3, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11125-020-09539-1, and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10402659.2017.1308723. We discussed the following: Whose knowledge is of most worth, his reflections on Israel, Gaza, epistemicide, truth, and the banality of evil, history, myth of the frontier, manhood, crisis of masculinity, industrial military complex, historicity of American violence, popular culture, attacks on higher education, his forthcoming book https://www.routledge.com/Myth-Manhood-and-Curriculum-Towards-Truth-Self-Cultivation-and-Reparation/Burns/p/book/9781032521428#:~:text=Description,manhood%20in%20US%20public%20life., and so much more.
17 APR 2025 · In Episode 64 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews Dr. https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/eppert#Overview a Professor of Secondary Education at the https://www.ualberta.ca/en/index.html. Her research focuses on the https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781461636588/Between-Hope-and-Despair-Pedagogy-and-the-Remembrance-of-Historical-Trauma https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/9781487551711#page=101 through literary, aesthetic, and mindful, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03626784.2021.1941797, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03626784.2021.1941797, along with exploration of the possibilities of psycho-social transformation to a more just, compassionate, and regenerative world. We discussed the following: her educative https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487551711, teaching, graduate studies, literary studies and engagement, https://www.amazon.ca/Cross-Cultural-Studies-Curriculum-Educational-Insights/dp/0805856749, memory work, life writing research, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1585906?seq=1, shadow texts and questions, mindfulness, Buddhism, https://academic.oup.com/jope/article-abstract/49/2/274/6842253, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-82976-6_28-1.pdf, species extinction, and so much more.
29 MAR 2025 · In Episode 63 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews https://mrpriestley.wordpress.com/ and https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/stphilip. Dr. https://mrpriestley.wordpress.com/ is a Professor of Education at the https://www.stir.ac.uk/. His research focuses in part on the processes of https://bookstore.emerald.com/curriculum-making-in-europe.html across the different layers of education systems. He is also the Director of the https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/social-sciences/our-research/research-groups/stirling-centre-for-research-into-curriculum-making/. https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/stphilip is an Associate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching within the https://www.ucy.ac.cy/edu/?lang=en at the https://www.ucy.ac.cy/?lang=en. Both represent their respective countries as national https://www.iaacs.ca/committee/s (IAACS). Both are Co-convenors who support Dr. Majella Dempsey the Lead Convenor of https://eera-ecer.de/networks/3-curriculum#:~:text=Network%203%20takes%20a%20curricular,(parts%20of)%20the%20curriculum. of the https://eera-ecer.de/ (EERA). We discussed the following: educational and political differences in Canada, United Kingdom, Scotland, Cyprus, European Union and Middle East, their co-edited collection https://bookstore.emerald.com/curriculum-making-in-europe.html, Supra, Macro, Meso, Micro, and Nano contexts of curriculum making as a social practice, collaborating on research with teachers as curriculum makers, navigating European Union Research Grants, their tenure as editors of https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14693704, implications of artificial intelligence for curriculum making, and so much more.
24 MAR 2025 · In Episode 62 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews Dr. https://www.mmf.mb.ca/citizen-spotlight/laura-forsythe a Michif Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. She is the elected Bison Local Chairperson of the https://www.mmf.mb.ca/, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the https://www.mmf.mb.ca/the-red-river-metis-la-nouvelle-nation. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Métis space called https://www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/rooster-town-the-story-of-an-urban-metis-fringe-community/. Her research focuses on Métis-specific contributions to the academy, https://themanitoban.com/2024/01/reclaiming-metis-narratives-in-academia/46546/, Métis research methodologies, and educational sovereignty. We discussed the following: Our academic leaves, her journey toward becoming a Métis scholar, https://themanitoban.com/2024/01/reclaiming-metis-narratives-in-academia/46546/ of Métis women from the academy, sharing Métis scholarship https://uofmpress.ca/books/around-the-kitchen-table, honouring the intergenerational contributions and advocacy of https://pawaatamihk.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/Pawaatamihk/article/view/15, https://pawaatamihk.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/Pawaatamihk, https://www.mawachihitotaak.com/mawachihitotaak-2024 (Let’s Get Together) a national Métis network, https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70878, and so much more.
11 FEB 2025 · In Episode 61 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews Dr. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/garry-gottfriedson and Dr. https://kamino.tru.ca/experts/home/main/bio.php?id=vhandford. Strongly rooted in his https://tkemlups.ca/ cultural teachings Dr. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/garry-gottfriedson holds a Master of Arts Education degree from https://www.sfu.ca/ and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the https://www.naropa.edu/programs/graduate-academics/mfa-creative-writing-poetics/ in Colorado. He has published numerous https://www.strongnations.com/gs/show.php?gs=3&gsd=2269. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorates from the https://www.unbc.ca/ and https://www.tru.ca/. Dr. https://kamino.tru.ca/experts/home/main/bio.php?id=vhandford holds a doctorate in Education Leadership from https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/ at the https://www.utoronto.ca/. She is a professor in the https://www.tru.ca/edsw.html at https://www.tru.ca/. She has co-edited and written several https://press.uottawa.ca/en/author/victoria-handford/ that address the experiences of faculty in Canadian Universities. We discussed the following: The regional differences of the places we call home, importance of intergenerational relations to land and language, being a https://tkemlups.ca/ cultural advisor, leading professional (un)learning conversations on Truths before Reconcilia(c)tion, collaborations on teaching and writing, disrupting traditional forms of academic writing, poetry, short stories, children’s stories, https://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776644660/dangling-in-the-glimmer-of-hope/, their hopes, and so much more.
20 JAN 2025 · In Episode 60 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews Dr. https://www.joelwestheimer.org/ a Professor of https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0161956X.2019.1553581 at the https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-education/joel-westheimer, https://www.joelwestheimer.org/music, and the education https://www.joelwestheimer.org/audio for https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-100-ottawa-morning. He is the author of https://www.joelwestheimer.org/what-kind-of-citizen. We discussed the following: family, what brought him to the teaching profession, election campaign and day in United States, the Presidential Inauguration, political and economic mobilization of young men via https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-virus-of-disinformation-threatens-democracy-and-education-is-the-cure/article_23ac1f37-7003-5820-886c-c8854295754a.html, censorship, freedom of speech, https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/westheimer-pending-uottawa-strike-is-about-much-more-than-money, academic freedom, https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/westheimer-keeping-students-from-political-events-undercuts-their-civic-education and pluriverse perspectives in the classroom, his new https://www.joelwestheimer.org/what-kind-of-citizen, examples and differences between and among https://www.joelwestheimer.org/what-kind-of-citizen, role of schools and teachers teaching https://www.academia.edu/1159183/What_kind_of_citizen_The_politics_of_educating_for_democracy, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-bowing-to-fascism-in-the-gilded-age-of-tech-plutocracy/, and so much more.
13 JAN 2025 · In Episode 59 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews Dr. https://andreasterzuk.com/ a Professor of Education at the https://www.uregina.ca/ which is part of Treaty 4 and resides on the traditional territories of the nēhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda Peoples, and homeland of the Michif/Métis Nation. She is a former French immersion and Core French teacher with classroom teaching experience in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan and in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories. Dr. https://andreasterzuk.com/ grew up in rural https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan. When she was a child, most adults in her town were white settlers, bilingual and either immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. Most of her generation spoke only English. Her early educational exposure to multilingualism, family language shift and the effects of https://www.tcpress.com/multilingual-nations-monolingual-schools-9780807786109 continue to influence her present-day research interests and https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-55761-4#aboutBook in language education, particularly as it relates to https://www.tcpress.com/multilingual-nations-monolingual-schools-9780807786109. As an adult, https://andreasterzuk.com/teaching/, and https://andreasterzuk.com/publications/ she has worked at learning French, Spanish, Cree and Ukrainian as additional languages. We discussed the following: some of her life history and educational journey, her use of story in research, teaching, and writing, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15427587.2024.2308902 toward learning Indigenous languages, community collaborations, Indigenous language revitalization https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/CJAL/article/view/31841, programming, https://canadianscholars.ca/book/unsettling-education/, and so much more.
8 JAN 2025 · In Episode 58 Dr. https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/653 interviews Dr. https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/K/lkortewe/node/17359 and https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/tesa-fiddler-award-1.5209775. They https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/mje/2018-v53-n2-mje04477/1058397ar/abstract/ as educational researchers, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth-Rosales-2/publication/304585548_Fostering_Teaching_for_Relevance_and_Values_Development_Insights_from_a_Longitudinal_Study_of_Teachers/links/5774806808aead7ba06e6498/Fostering-Teaching-for-Relevance-and-Values-Development-Insights-from-a-Longitudinal-Study-of-Teachers.pdf#page=20, colleagues, and friends in Thunder Bay, on the traditional territory of the https://fwfn.com/ (signatory to https://www.anishinabek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Robinson-Superior-Treaty.pdf). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/tesa-fiddler-award-1.5209775 is Anishinaabekwe from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchenuhmaykoosib_Inninuwug_First_Nation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibways_of_Onigaming_First_Nation in Northwestern Ontario. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/tesa-fiddler-award-1.5209775 is currently on secondment as an Education Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Education from her role as the Coordinator of Indigenous Education for Thunder Bay Catholic DSB. Dr. https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/K/lkortewe/node/17359 is an associate professor at Lakehead University. Her community-based work focuses on questions of how https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/3247 with the socially unjust realities of Indigenous youth who daily contend with anti-Indigenous racism and https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9519. We discussed the following: The confluences of their different life histories, negotiating, resisting, and https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/learning/otf-connects/resources/httpsyoutu-bezhaoqmjqlkq/ https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/2230, https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org/map/ education, https://ojs-o.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CERJ/article/view/14, and relations, brave conversations, https://voiced.ca/podcast_episode_post/why-indigenous-literatures-matter-ft-tesa-fiddler/ and their research projects that seek to cultivate https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/2230 to the https://nctr.ca/’s https://nctr.ca/records/reports/, our https://theconversation.com/reckoning-with-the-truths-of-unmarked-graves-of-indigenous-children-education-systems-must-take-action-166151, and so much more.
How are we talking about the “academicky” stuff that informs our lived experiences? In response to such questions, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook invites you to delve deeper into the lives and...
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How are we talking about the “academicky” stuff that informs our lived experiences? In response to such questions, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook invites you to delve deeper into the lives and thinking of different public intellectuals, writers, artists, community activists, politicians, school administrators, and teachers.
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