Episode 1 - Cree Pedagogy with Angelina Weenie and Doreen Oakes
Air Date: October 16, 2024
Summary
In this first episode, Dr. Angelina Weenie discusses the lessons in her book about the importance of learning how to teach with Cree cultural perspectives.
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Cree Pedagogy with Angelina Weenie and Doreen Oakes
Episode Guest
Dr. Angelina Weenie, who is Cree (nehiyaw) and speaks Cree (y) dialect fluently, is Dean of the UPEI Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research, and Applied Studies and a tenured associate professor at the First Nations University of Canada, where she served as a department head from 2002–2012 and program coordinator of Indigenous education from 2016–2018. Her research and teaching interests lie in Indigenous epistemology, culturally responsive pedagogy, approaches to Indigenous language reclamation, land-based pedagogy, and research methods with Indigenous peoples.
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