Pedagogy of Justice for Indigenous Peoples:
Workshop for Educators
- Wednesday October 16, 2024
- 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Mills 220, Barry Mills Hall Refreshments Provided
- Register in Bowdoin’s CampusGroups
- Open to Maine educators.
Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson will engage Maine educators in steps they can take toward anti-oppression teaching, the significance of upholding the Wabanaki Studies Law for social and political change, and the role of land acknowledgements in education.
Dr. Sockbeson is of the Penobscot Indian Nation, the Waponahki Confederacy of tribes located in Indian Island, Maine, United States and the Maritime provinces of Canada. She is an activist and scholar, specializing in Indigenous Peoples Education. Her research focuses on Indigenous knowledge and knowledge mobilization (also the topic of her current SSHRC Insight grant), Aboriginal healing through language and culture, anti-racism and decolonization. In 2013, she received, together with her Indigenous colleagues, the University of Alberta Human Rights Teaching Award for her role in coordinating and teaching Alberta’s first compulsory course in Aboriginal Education. Visit Dr. Sockbeson’s web site for more information.
In collaboration with the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching and the Education Department
Indigenous Knowledge
Mobilization (IKM) and Anti-Racist Education In Immobilizing Times
Rebecca Sockbeson, of the Penobscot Nation, is a professor of Indigenous education for the College of Education and Human Development at the
University of Maine and is a professor at the University of Alberta in Canada.
Professor Sockbeson will share her research related to IKM, its connection to epistemicide, and anti-racism in the context of Indigenous research and education for the benefit of Indigenous peoples. Sponsored by the Brodie Family Lecture Fund.
- Thursday, October 17, 2024
- 7:00 p.m.
- Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
- Open to the public free of charge
- For more information, contact [email protected]
