Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” Stuff

In Episode 72, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. James Miles and Dr. Matthew Keynes to discuss their new co-authored book, Education and Historical Justice: Redress, Reparations, and Reconciliation in the Classroom . Drawing on comparative case studies from Canada, Australia, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, their scholarship examines how education systems, teachers, and students are increasingl...

In Episode 71, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Carla Peck , Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Alberta and Director of Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future , a national SSHRC-funded partnership focused on reimagining K–12 history education across Canada. Dr. Peck’s research explores how teachers and students understand history and democracy, with particular attention...

In Episode 70 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Aaron Teo is a Singaporean Chinese first generation migrant settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands. He currently works as a sociologist of education at the University of Southern Queensland. Our conversation centers on his research into the racialized and gendered subjectivities of migrant teachers and students from Asia within the Austra...

In Episode 69 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Leyton Schnellert , an Associate Professor, at the University of British Columbia and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship . Our conversation examines his decades of community-engaged research with rural communities and self-advocates across British Columbia. We discuss Growing Innovation in Rural Sites of Learning and...

In Episode 68 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Laura Madokoro , a mixed-generation settler historian from Quebec’s Eastern Townships and a leading scholar of migration, refuge, and humanitarianism. Now an Associate Professor at Carleton University, she draws on the intersecting confluences of an archivist, journalist, and historian to illustrate how stories surface held, and circulated within and...

In Episode 67 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook  interviews Dr. Marie Battiste  is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation , a member of the Potlotek First Nation  and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs  in Maine. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan  and one of the most influential scholars of Indigenous education in Canada. Her groundbreaking scholarship has advanced the work of decolonizing educ...

Dr. Philip S. S. Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University’s Faculty of 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 antiblackness , colonialism , and racial injustice .  Dr. How...

In Episode 65 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. James P. Burns  an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of New Mexico . Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, Dr. James P. Burns  was an Associate Professor in the  School of Education and Human Development at Florida International University and an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University . His research interes...

In Episode 64 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Claudia Eppert a Professor of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta . Her research focuses on the ethics of witnessing social and ecological suffering and trauma through literary, aesthetic, and mindful, contemplative , holistic engagements , along with exploration of the possibilities of psycho-social transformation to a more just, c...

In Episode 63 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Mark Priestley and Dr. Stavroula Philippou . Dr.  Priestley  is a Professor of Education at the University of Stirling . His research focuses in part on the processes of curriculum making across the different layers of education systems.  He is also the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making . Dr. Stavroula Philippou...

In Episode 62 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. 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 Manitoba Métis Federation , the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Métis . Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cy...

In Episode 61 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Garry Gottfriedson and Dr. Victoria Handford . Strongly rooted in his Secwépemc cultural teachings Dr.  Garry Gottfriedson holds a Master of Arts Education degree from Simon Fraser University and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Naropa Institute in Colorado. He has published numerous books of poetry . He has also been awarded two...

In Episode 60 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Joel Westheimer a Professor of Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa , musician , and the education columnist for CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Show . He is the author of What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good . We discussed the following: family, what brought him to the teaching profession, election campaign...

In Episode 59 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Andrea Sterzuk a Professor of Education at the University of Regina 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 Saskatch...

In Episode 58 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Lisa Korteweg and Tesa Fiddler . They work as educational researchers, teacher educators , colleagues, and friends in Thunder Bay, on the traditional territory of the Fort Williams First Nations-Anemki Wajiw (signatory to the 1850 Robinson-Superior treaty ).  Tesa Fiddler is Anishinaabekwe from Kitchinuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Onigaming First Na...

In Episode 57 Dr.  Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta , Dr. Bill Cohen , Terry Beaudry , & Dr. Jody Dlouhy-Nelson .  They work at UBC Okanagan and co-lead a SSHRC Partnership grant titled Co-Curricular-Making: Honoring Indigenous Connections to Land, Culture and the Relational Self .  We discussed the following: importance of storying the wisdom that sits in the places...

Fooknconversation talking about “Academicky” Stuff Description for Episode 56 ( Dr. Melanie Janzen ): In Episode 56  Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Melanie Janzen a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba . Her research uses critical perspectives to explore the inter-related workings of power and discourses , particularly as they relate...

In Episode 55  Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr.   Heather Stone an Associate Professor who holds the Nalley E.P./LEQSF Endowed Professorship in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette . She has over fifteen years of experience in education and has developed curricula for K-12, college, and community projects. The curriculum is derived from th...

In Episode 54 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Krista McCracken an award winning public historian and archivist. They work as a Researcher/Curator at Algoma University ’s  Arthur A. Wishart Library  and  Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre,  in Baawating ( Sault Ste. Marie , Ontario) on the Robinson-Huron Treaty territory , the traditional territories of the Anishnaabeg, specifically the Garden...

Fooknconversation talking about “Academicky” Stuff Description for Episode 53 (Dr. Maria Luiza Süssekind ): In Episode 53  Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Maria Luiza Süssekind  a Professor, mother and grandmother, feminist and activist, and writer from the Global South. She currently does research and teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State . She is a member of the council...

In Episode 52  Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Bryan Smith  a Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences education at James Cook University . His research looks at anti-racist and decolonising readings of humanities and social sciences education. Specifically, his work critically interrogates place, colonial and racialized logics in curriculum practice , and the convergence of history , geog...

In Episode 51 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Shirley & Dr. Hargreaves . Both are Research Professors at Boston College . Dr. Dennis Shirley is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin .  Dr. Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at UOttawa and Co-Director of a Canadian Playful Schools Network .  They have collaborated as writers, teachers, speakers, and advisers...

In Episode 50  Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Stephen Hurley the Founder and Chief Catalyst at voicEd Radio . Combining a life-long love of radio and an intense 30-year career in public education, Stephen Hurley is passionate about finding ways to enliven the public square with vibrant conversations about learning, teaching, schooling, and education in its broadest sense. We discussed some of t...

In Episode 49 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Alana Butler an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University . Dr. Alana Butler 's research interests include the academic achievement of low-socio economic students, race and schooling , equity and inclusion , and multicultural education. We discussed some of the following issues: growing up in Scarborough, British colonial educational system in th...

Fooknconversation talking about “Academicky” Stuff Description for Episode 48 ( Dr. Janice Forsyth) : In Episode 47 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Forsyth , member of the Fisher River Cree Nation and Professor in Indigenous Land-Based Physical Culture and Wellness in the School of Kinesiology , Faculty of Education , University of British Columbia . Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies and...