Join a community of like-minded educators dedicated to bringing eco-response-ability into teaching, learning, and research in the field of English language instruction for adults. This group is open to everyone, whether you are new to eco-response-ability or have been engaging with this topic for years. The main focus of this Community of Practice (CoP) is on critical evaluation of pedagogy, curriculum, and instruction in relation to the Land and its peoples. Our CoP provides a brave space for instructors to share resources, ideas, and strategies that promote eco-literacy in ourselves, each other, and the EAL classroom.
Gather with us for the initial event of the Eco-Response-ability Community of Practice: Guided Forest Walk. We will be meeting at the Stanley Park Pavillion on June 13th at 4pm. Rain or shine.
Co-facilitators:
Urbashi Raha
Urbashi Raha is an English teacher with over 11 years of experience teaching English in diverse contexts. She recently completed her MEd, specializing in Teaching English as an Additional Language, from Simon Fraser University. Her research interests focus on decolonizing education, eco-justice curricula, and land-based pedagogy rooted in Indigenous epistemologies. She examines how colonial ideologies are reproduced in language education and explores the potential for both language and teacher education to address sustainability issues by challenging Western colonialism, anthropocentrism, and neoliberalism in the field of ELT. She advocates for a curriculum grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing.
Jennifer Cummins
Jennifer Cummins has been in the field of EAL since 2007. She is currently a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, a full-time faculty member at Vancouver Community College, and sits on the BC TEAL Board of Directors. She is passionate about eco-justice through connecting with the Land and connecting the Land to the classroom.
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