Episode 3 - Cree Pedagogy with Angelina Weenie and Doreen Oakes

All SeriesCree Pedagogy with Angelina Weenie and Doreen Oakes
Written By Lindell Haywahe

Air Date: November 5, 2024

Summary

In this episode, Angelina discusses the role that First Nations University of Canada played in teaching all Indigenous cultures and languages, with special attention to her own experience and Cree heritage.

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Cree Pedagogy with Angelina Weenie and Doreen Oakes

HOSTS

Doreen Oakes

PRODUCERS
Lindell Haywahe, Stewart Manhas

 

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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