Episode 5 - Cree Pedagogy with Angelina Weenie and Doreen Oakes
Air Date: November 5, 2024
Summary
In this episode, Angelina continues the conversation about the importance of cultural camps within the bachelor of education program in the First Nations University of Canada.
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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This podcast is based on Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy, recently co-authored by Dr Weenie. It outlines how Indigenous people can successfully advance Indigenous knowledge in education and research. The book analyses the various roles of First Nations communities and Elders in making space for Indigenous knowledge in universities. Dr. Weenie holds a BEd (1979), BA (1989) in English, postgraduate diploma (1996) in Indian and Northern Education, and MEd (2002), all from the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD (2010) in Education from the University of Regina.
This podcast is based on Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy, recently co-authored by Dr Weenie. It outlines how Indigenous people can successfully advance Indigenous knowledge in education and research. The book analyses the various roles of First Nations communities and Elders in making space for Indigenous knowledge in universities. Dr. Weenie holds a BEd (1979), BA (1989) in English, postgraduate diploma (1996) in Indian and Northern Education, and MEd (2002), all from the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD (2010) in Education from the University of Regina.
This podcast is based on Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy, recently co-authored by Dr Weenie. It outlines how Indigenous people can successfully advance Indigenous knowledge in education and research. The book analyses the various roles of First Nations communities and Elders in making space for Indigenous knowledge in universities. Dr. Weenie holds a BEd (1979), BA (1989) in English, postgraduate diploma (1996) in Indian and Northern Education, and MEd (2002), all from the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD (2010) in Education from the University of Regina.
This podcast is based on Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy, recently co-authored by Dr Weenie. It outlines how Indigenous people can successfully advance Indigenous knowledge in education and research. The book analyses the various roles of First Nations communities and Elders in making space for Indigenous knowledge in universities. Dr. Weenie holds a BEd (1979), BA (1989) in English, postgraduate diploma (1996) in Indian and Northern Education, and MEd (2002), all from the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD (2010) in Education from the University of Regina.
This podcast is based on Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy, recently co-authored by Dr Weenie. It outlines how Indigenous people can successfully advance Indigenous knowledge in education and research. The book analyses the various roles of First Nations communities and Elders in making space for Indigenous knowledge in universities. Dr. Weenie holds a BEd (1979), BA (1989) in English, postgraduate diploma (1996) in Indian and Northern Education, and MEd (2002), all from the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD (2010) in Education from the University of Regina.
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