Confronting Colonialism: Anti-racist and Indigenous pedagogies in the EAL classroom
Date/Time
2/7/2025
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Pacific
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Pacific
Sponsors
Event Type(s)
PD Workshop
Event Description
Registration Link: Eventbrite
Join Dr. Yvonne Breckenridge from the University of Alberta on Feb 7 to explore anti-racist and Indigenous pedagogies in EAL. Empower future educators to confront colonialism in their teaching.
This session discusses what teacher educators need to address to transform pre-service EAL teachers from allies to co-conspirators (Love, 2019). Although teacher education has started to acknowledge structural racism, pre-service teachers are not given the opportunity to use this information to build their own transformative teaching practices, especially when learning how to teach a specific subject. This presentation focuses on how to encourage students to address racism in their EAL classes to empower students.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Yvonne Breckenridge has taught English language learners from pre-school to graduate school for almost 30 years in a variety of educational settings. She is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Alberta. In addition to her experience as a teacher educator in Canada she has taught in-service and pre-service teachers from Japan, South Korea, Mexico and Germany. Her research is grounded in critical theory, anti-racism, narrative inquiry, and action research with a specific focus on English for academic purposes, task-based language teaching, professional development, and identity. She has also hugged a panda.
Join Dr. Yvonne Breckenridge from the University of Alberta on Feb 7 to explore anti-racist and Indigenous pedagogies in EAL. Empower future educators to confront colonialism in their teaching.
This session discusses what teacher educators need to address to transform pre-service EAL teachers from allies to co-conspirators (Love, 2019). Although teacher education has started to acknowledge structural racism, pre-service teachers are not given the opportunity to use this information to build their own transformative teaching practices, especially when learning how to teach a specific subject. This presentation focuses on how to encourage students to address racism in their EAL classes to empower students.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Yvonne Breckenridge has taught English language learners from pre-school to graduate school for almost 30 years in a variety of educational settings. She is currently an associate lecturer at the University of Alberta. In addition to her experience as a teacher educator in Canada she has taught in-service and pre-service teachers from Japan, South Korea, Mexico and Germany. Her research is grounded in critical theory, anti-racism, narrative inquiry, and action research with a specific focus on English for academic purposes, task-based language teaching, professional development, and identity. She has also hugged a panda.
Location
CANADA
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