鈥淭he 91亚色 Research Chair program is an important complement to the Canada Research Chair program to advance our efforts to strengthen research and related creative activities across the University and enhance the well-being of the communities we serve,鈥� says President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton. 鈥淢y warm congratulations to the newest recipients on this achievement.鈥�

This year鈥檚 YRCs are the 10th cohort to be appointed as of July 1 since the program was first launched by the Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation in 2015.

鈥淭hese new chair appointments are the latest example of research intensification at 91亚色, a major priority of our new Strategic Research Plan,鈥� said Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. 鈥�91亚色 Research Chairs receive institutional support that is on par with what their counterparts are provided by the national program. This internal program advances research excellence at 91亚色 and enhances the research capabilities of our faculty to create positive change.鈥�  

The new YRCs will conduct research in a variety of fields that range from human and computer vision to children鈥檚 musical cultures to the impacts of climate change on lakes.

The YRC program consists of two tiers. Tier 1 is open to established research leaders at the rank of full professor. Tier 2 is aimed at emerging research leaders within 15 years of their first academic appointment. The Chairs have five-year terms.

Tier 1 91亚色 Research Chairs

Robert Allison, Lassonde School of Engineering
91亚色 Research Chair in Stereoscopic Vision and Depth Perception
Allison鈥檚 work as a YRC will study human aspects of virtual and augmented reality. His research program asks: how do we share a common space that is partially or completely virtual? The research results will allow designers to determine whether collaborative experiences and applications are likely to be coherent, consistent and ultimately successful for users. This YRC is administered by 91亚色鈥檚 VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications) program, first funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (2016-23).

James Elder, Faculty of Health and Lassonde School of Engineering
91亚色 Research Chair in Human and Computer Vision
Elder鈥檚 YRC research program is deeply interdisciplinary, integrating studies of biological perception using behavioural and neuroscience methods, computational modelling of brain processes, statistical modelling of the visual environment, and computer vision algorithm and system design. While advancing fundamental knowledge in perception science and AI, this research has application to safer and more accessible urban mobility, social robotics and sports analytics. This YRC is administered by 91亚色鈥檚 VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications) program.

Jimmy Huang, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
91亚色 Research Chair in Big Data Analytics
Huang鈥檚 research as a YRC will aim to overcome the limitations of the existing information retrieval (IR) methods for web search and develop a new retrieval paradigm called task-aware and context-sensitive information search for big data. This approach, similar to ChatGPT or GoogleBard, will leverage IR techniques to offer an interactive and dynamic search experience. The program鈥檚 research results are expected to provide a deeper understanding of user information needs and generate novel techniques and tools.

Lauren Sergio, Faculty of Health
91亚色 Research Chair in Brain Health and Gender in Action
Sergio鈥檚 research as YRC investigates the impact of gender on brain health, for which there is little study. The research program will aim to characterize the gender-related differences in an individual鈥檚 behavioural response to impaired brain health and design appropriately tailored interventions to optimize their return to work, duty or sport. The research results will provide medically relevant and fundamental knowledge necessary to develop targeted brain health assessments and interventions that account for gender. This YRC is administered by 91亚色鈥檚 VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications) program, first funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (2016-23).

Marie-Christine Pioffet, Glendon College
91亚色 Research Chair in Franco-Indigenous Relations in the Americas
This YRC is dedicated to the study of texts from the French colonization in America with research focused on Indigenous history and cultural renaissance, European scriptural practices and Indigenous oral traditions, Franco Indigenous intercultural dialogues, and the Great Lakes region, missionary laboratory, and intercultural junction. Pioffet鈥檚 research as Chair will rethink Francophone and Indigenous identities and the cultural blending that inspired the writings of the period, while promoting a resurgence of First Nations culture and languages.

Poonam Puri, Osgoode Hall Law School
91亚色 Research Chair in Corporate Governance, Investor Protection and Financial Markets
Puri鈥檚 YRC explores the role of the corporation in society and the impact of legal rules, as well as market mechanisms and incentives on corporate behaviour in several key areas of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG). These include racial justice, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and climate change, as well as the role of the corporation and financial markets in times of disruptive technological change. Puri鈥檚 cutting-edge, empirical, and interdisciplinary research program charts a new course for the modern corporation, casting it not solely as a profit-maximizer for its shareholders, but as a responsible corporate citizen that genuinely considers the interests of a wider range of stakeholders and is accountable to society.

Tier 2 91亚色 Research Chairs

Jacob Beck, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
91亚色 Research Chair in Philosophy of Visual Perception
Beck鈥檚 work as YRC seeks to combine philosophy and vision science, suggesting new avenues for research in both disciplines. His research explores how longstanding philosophical puzzles about perception can be resolved or recast with the help of vision science. Beck also examines how scientific discussions can be illuminated by philosophy 鈥� for example, how numerical perception can be informed by philosophical theories about what numbers are. This YRC is administered by 91亚色鈥檚 VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications) program, first funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (2016-23).

Gene Cheung, Lassonde School of Engineering
91亚色 Research Chair in Graph Signal Processing
Cheung鈥檚 research as a YRC focuses on signal processing and machine learning. Cheung looks at the frequency analysis and processing of big data residing on irregular kernels described by graphs, in an emerging and fast-growing field called graph signal processing (GSP). His research program involves collaboration with both academic and industry partners to apply GSP theory to a wide range of applications including image/3D point cloud compression, denoising, super-resolution, video summarization, movie recommendation, and crop yield prediction. This YRC is administered by 91亚色鈥檚 VISTA (Vision: Science to Applications) program, first funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (2016-23).

Andrea Emberly, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
91亚色 Research Chair in Children鈥檚 Musical Cultures
As a YRC, Emberly will take a community-led approach to the study of children鈥檚 musical cultures that explores issues around sustaining endangered musical traditions by emphasizing the connection between music and wellbeing. The research program will focus on child-led and intergenerational collaborations that amplify the voices of equity-seeking children and young people who tell their own stories, in their own voices. The work will explore how children and young people are active social agents who locate and activate unique and meaningful pathways to sustain, change and transform musical traditions.

Sapna Sharma, Faculty of Science
91亚色 Research Chair in Global Change Biology
Sharma鈥檚 research as YRC will seek to gain a deeper understanding of the ecological impacts of climate change on freshwater availability and quality. Sharma鈥檚 research will capitalize on long-term climatic and ecological time series collected from thousands of lakes and apply cutting-edge statistical and machine learning analyses to forecast the impacts of global environmental change on freshwater security and help to explain macroecological patterns, drivers and impacts of worldwide lake responses to climate change. The research program will collaborate with researchers across disciplines to develop technological, natural, health and social solutions to water security.

Sue Winton, Faculty of Education
91亚色 Research Chair in Policy Analysis for Democracy
Winton鈥檚 YRC research program will collaborate with multiple public sector organizations to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education privatization in Canada. Winton鈥檚 research will compare policy development, enactment, and effects during and after the pandemic across multiple scales. The research results will create knowledge about local, regional, national and international influences on education privatization and how this process impacts socially disadvantaged groups, teachers鈥� work and democracy. At 91亚色, Winton will establish and lead a cross-disciplinary Community of Practice for new and established researchers with an interest in critical policy research.

Hina Tabassum, Lassonde School of Engineering
91亚色 Research Chair in 5G/6G-enabled Wireless Mobility and Sensing Applications
Leveraging tools from statistics, optimization, game theory and machine learning, this YRC focuses on developing novel network deployment planning, radio access design and dimensioning, radio resource allocation and mobility management solutions to address challenges of higher frequencies like millimeter-wave in 5G and THz in 6G. Tabassum鈥檚 research will explore the feasibility of novel multi-band network architectures where THz and optical transmissions can complement the RF transmissions optimally. The research results could form a core for Canadian research on multi-band networks with the potential to connect the unconnected in a seamless, safe and resource efficient manner.

Taien Ng-Chan, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
91亚色 Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media
Ng-Chan鈥檚 research explores questions of how emergent media (new technologies such as VR/AR) can aid in the development of original digital and immersive storytelling techniques, foster solidarity and community amongst marginalized groups, particularly from the Asian diaspora, and lead to better representation and inclusion of these groups in culture and society. The YRC program will allow for future long-term collaborations and creative activities that will contribute to more diversity and inclusion in the emergent media industries, a greater sense of community for marginalized groups and better cultural representation in storytelling.

Denielle Elliott, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
91亚色 Research Chair in Injured Minds
Elliott鈥檚 work as YRC will explore how ethnographic experiments and transdisciplinary collaborations between arts, neuroscience and medical anthropology can contribute to a fuller understanding of conceptions of self, brain trauma and mental health. Her research program involves a multidisciplinary team that will explore the embodied experiences of people living with brain trauma and brain trauma knowledge-making practices in the clinic and laboratory, as well as their convergences. The research results will increase understandings of the effects of brain trauma, facilitate transdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, science and humanities and highlight how uniquely valuable ethnographic methods are to understanding urgent health priorities.

Cary Wu, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
91亚色 Research Chair in Political Sociology of Health
Wu鈥檚 YRC program will work to establish a transdisciplinary political sociology of health approach to investigate health inequalities and provide greater understanding of what forces maintain, increase and reduce health inequalities. The research includes theoretical and empirical illustrations that will focus on trust 鈥� the belief in the reliability of others and institutions. The program will seek to energize the field of political sociology by introducing a much-needed new research direction that focuses on trust and will advance a unifying theory of trust to explain health inequalities.

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Masks, social distancing and increased ventilation are all necessary pandemic measures in classrooms, but they can make for a difficult listening and hearing environment for students and teachers. While this is true for students with hearing loss, the capacity for COVID-19 measures to affect all students鈥� ability to hear clearly should also be considered.

Before COVID-19, classrooms already represented less-than-optimal-acoustic environments. It鈥檚 also true that young children, children who are learning a new language, children with language difficulties and children with recurrent ear infections have particular difficulty understanding speech in noisy situations.

The Elementary Teachers鈥� Federation of Ontario recognizes classroom noise as a barrier to teaching and learning. Read news coverage based on evidence, not alarm. COVID-19 measures potentially degrade the listening situation further because of masks, which remove visual cues for speech-reading and muffle the speaker鈥檚 voice, social distancing, plexiglass barriers or ventilation systems, which can add significant noise into the room.

Read the full article written by Associate Professor Pam Millett on .

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Many young students are facing problems getting back into the swing of school after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to learn from home, where parents were nearby and rigid schedules were often replaced with loosely structured days.

Sarah Barrett, an education researcher and associate professor at 91亚色, said the pandemic also taught some kids how to be adaptable. As schools shifted from in-person to online 鈥� and back and forth again 鈥� kids learned flexibility and empathy, she said: 鈥淭he pandemic made it possible to understand that the whole world was going through something.鈥�

Barrett, who published a study on equity in online classrooms during the pandemic in March, recently reached out to the same 50 Ontario teachers she interviewed for that previous research to ask how students are adjusting to in-person learning.

Respondents mostly taught younger grades, though teachers of kindergarten to Grade 12 were represented. Barrett said the general consensus was that kids were 鈥済lad to be back, face-to-face with their friends.鈥�

Because teachers are used to addressing the annual summer slide, she said many aren鈥檛 concerned by lags in reading or writing. But they do worry about students鈥� mental health.

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What year did you graduate and what program(s) were you in? 
I graduated from 91亚色鈥檚 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Honours Psychology and Bachelor of Education (BEd) concurrently in 2019. I graduated with a Master of Education (MEd) in 2020. 

How did the Bachelor of Education, and eventually the Master of Education program, prepare you for your career? 

When it comes down to it, all my programs have prepared me for my career. I can thank the Faculty of Education for preparing me with a responsive student-centred pedagogy and for teaching me the importance of knowing, honouring, and connecting with students before anything else. Both education programs also helped me develop a more critical understanding of the role of the teacher--calling on me to be thoughtful about the practices I continue in my classroom and to consider the power, privilege, and historical contexts involved in choices that affect my students. 

What extracurricular activities were you involved with during your time in the Faculty of Education and how did this help you become a better educator? 

I was fortunate to have served on a variety of Faculty Councils and governance committees in roles like Student Senator and  President of the Faculty of Education Students鈥� Association, which offers opportunities for current students to serve as representatives of the University. I was also a part of the Student Health Ambassadors (SHAY) at 91亚色. 

All of my extracurricular activities offered opportunities to help others and showed me how people use what they have and where they are in their lives to make a difference for others. Now as an educator, I focus on how I can show up and make a difference for my students. 

What did you learn during your time with 鈥榁accine Hunters Canada鈥� (VHC) that will help you in your teaching career?

My experience at VHC taught me the importance of volunteer work and of being selfless in order to help others. I always tell my students to try to get involved in the community in any way that they can as it is a good way to make connections and to make meaningful change that has a lasting impact.

 is a community of volunteers whose mission is to help Canadians navigate the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, understand the complexities of vaccine eligibility, and connect eligible Canadians with appointment opportunities. 

What鈥檚 next for you, personally or professionally? 

I鈥檝e only just started teaching. I鈥檓 certainly looking forward to more opportunities to build communities and connect with students.聽聽

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The event, which will be presented in a virtual format, is free for all 91亚色 faculty and staff to attend. The forum will look at the global inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and how this unprecedented health crisis has disrupted the education landscape and the opportunities to build back better and reimagine a new era for learning and pedagogy.

91亚色 through Hopkins, who is a long-standing UNESCO Chair, will be the only Canadian University represented at the forum, which features an international cohort of 22 speakers. University delegates, including faculty and staff, can attend the forum free of charge. Register at .

During the forum, presenters will address the role of universities in achieving the United Nations鈥� Sustainable Development Goal #4 on quality education. Their comments will explore:

• Universities鈥� commitment to improving access to education,
• building inclusive models of education,
• embracing a culture of lifelong learning,
• a new era for micro-credentials,
• the role of partnerships in delivering SDG4,
• sustaining high-quality educational research with impact, and
• is the future experiential?

Hopkins will participate in the discussion with Paul Basken, Times Higher Education鈥檚 editor for North America. They will discuss the topic 鈥淨uality education for a resilient recovery,鈥� which will focus on how the pandemic has highlighted many of the inequalities among learners around the world and, those who do not have equitable access to remote learning. How can universities ensure that education is more effective, impactful and inclusive than it was before the crisis? Their discussion will take place June 14, from 9:30 to 10 a.m. EST (2 to 3 p.m. GMT+1).

More about Charles Hopkins

Hopkins holds the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability at 91亚色 in Toronto, Canada. This chair, established in 1999, was the first UNESCO Chair to focus on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a central concept and a purpose of education. Since 2017, ESD has been recognized as an integral element of Quality Education and as a key enabler of all SDGs.

Hopkins coordinates two global research networks focused on ESD. One network is the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions (INTEI) focusing on reorienting teacher education towards a sustainable future. The second network, #IndigenousESD aims to engage ESD content and pedagogy in reorienting education and training for Indigenous youth. Both networks are each active in over 50 countries to address the SDGs, in particular SDG 4 and the Global Education 2030 Agenda.

In 2020, his Chair was appointed to serve as focal point for SDG 4 in the Global Cluster of Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development (HESD), hosted by the International Association of Universities (IAU) and Hopkins was invited to co-chair the 91亚色 President鈥檚 Sustainability Council Knowledge Working Group.

Hopkins is a founding developer of the UN University麓s Regional Centres of Expertise on ESD and is advisor to the program. He is the Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute on ESD in Beijing, China. The Chair also collaborates closely with UNESCO-UNEVOC and Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) to enhance the Greening of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).

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The lessons learned from changes to these curriculums in 2015 and 2019 are outlined in a new report, , launching April 27.

Although most teachers interviewed for this report welcomed changes to the 1998 health, sex and physical education curriculum, they felt highly surveilled and stressed, and frustrated with the way the new curriculums were rolled out without adequate supports, training and resources. In the space of several years, they were asked to teach three different curriculums.

The researchers wanted to know how teachers at the frontlines of this confluence of ideological battles between governments, parents, teachers, human rights and students were navigating this charged political environment, and what could be done differently next time.

鈥淲hile we collected the data pre-COVID, in many ways I think so many of the recommendations that are coming out of this report in terms of the kind of supports that teachers need, and more supportive work environments, are even more salient today,鈥� says Flicker, 91亚色 Research Chair in Community-Based Participatory Research in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. 

鈥淭hey鈥檙e trying to navigate teaching and learning and communicating around health and safety in this new environment, in this very changed landscape, thinking about sexuality, risk and relationships. I don鈥檛 think public health has had a moment when more of us were paying attention to things like hygiene and setting boundaries, understanding consent, and understanding the well-being of ourselves and others.鈥�

Health and physical education teachers play an important role in helping young people think about their bodies, their well-being, making safer decisions and reducing risks, but in many ways, teachers are even more surveilled now as they Zoom in from their homes into their students鈥� homes, says Flicker.

The report will launch at a virtual event 鈥� Teaching Health & Physical Education in Uncertain Times 鈥� on April 27, from 4 to 6 p.m.

The event will include a talk by Flicker on the key findings of her study, followed by Faculty of Education Professor Sarah Barrett sharing her final report, Emergency Distance Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Teachers鈥� Perspectives, released last month. To register, visit the Zoom conference registration .

For the Changing the Rules study, Flicker and her team, including Faculty of Education Associate Professor , interviewed 34 teachers who had taught health and physical education in K-12 Ontario schools for at least five years. They hailed from 17 school boards, including public school boards, independent First Nations boards, Catholic boards, and French boards. 

Almost all teachers interviewed agreed the curriculum needed updating and the proposed changes were important. They felt young people need to be able to talk about how things like cell phones and the internet impact their lives, including sexually and romantically, and have teachers be able to discuss these issues with them as part of the curriculum. Many felt that sharing information about substance use, STIs, pregnancy, hygiene, and healthy relationships would help young people make decisions that would help them grow up to live happier or healthier lives.

Teachers said they need more resources particularly in the context of changing demographics in Ontario.

鈥淎s the province becomes more diverse, teachers need resources that reflect that diversity and help them have health and physical education conversations in ways that honour very different cultural traditions and understandings around the body and health, and well-being,鈥� says Flicker.

Some of the suggestions for the future included changing the curriculum incrementally on a regular basis to ensure it remains relevant and responsive to the changing realities of Ontario students. Diverse stakeholders should be included in future consultations to ensure the curriculum is meeting the needs of all students and their communities. In addition, policies, templates and strategies need to be put in place to accommodate those students not participating in sex education classes. A culture of learning and support for teachers and students should be fostered.

Watch Flicker discuss the results of her study and their relevancy to today in the series of videos below:

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Welcome to the November 2020 issue of Innovatus, a special issue of YFile that is devoted to teaching and learning innovation at 91亚色.

This issue of Innovatus focuses on teaching, learning and the student experience in the Faculty of Education. I am so pleased by the rich variety of stories offered in this issue because they showcase the expansive depth of the Faculty's approach to the "act of education" to quote Interim Dean Sharon Murphy.

Education is universal and the Faculty's work with refugees in the Dadaab Refugee Complex in Kenya, homeless youth and in re-envisioning early childhood education are displayed among the fine stories offered in this issue. As well, Dean Murphy's letter is a testament to the Faculty's commitment to excellence, and the story highlighting the innovation shown in moving the Faculty of Education's Summer Institute online and transforming it to a year-long effort is amazing. Encore!

Thank you again for the many wonderful comments about our September and October issues. I value each of your responses. Please continue to contact me with your ideas, classroom innovations and thoughts about teaching, learning and the student experience.

As I close, the snow is starting to fly and with it, the holidays are approaching. I would like to take a moment to wish each of you good health and happiness at home, which is especially important this year.

Featured in the November 2020 issue of Innovatus

In her letter to the community, Interim Dean Sharon Murphy writes about how the Faculty of Education is constantly working to enliven new visions of education and society, visions of possibility, equity and social justice. "Our work focuses not only inward on curriculum and pedagogy, but very much looks outward towards the idea of education being situated within a complex and seemingly evermore fragile world."

One of 91亚色's hallowed traditions, the Faculty of Education Summer Institute (FESI), may have bowed to COVID-19 in terms of format, but it is unbowed in terms of mission and content. For 2020-2021, the institute has morphed into a series of five free webinars titled Up Close and Personal: Conversations on Anti-Oppression.

Stephen Gaetz, the 91亚色 Research Chair in Homelessness and Research Impact and a professor in the Faculty of Education, is using his excellent research and communications skills and grant-writing ability to attack the challenges within youth homelessness, which need broad solutions and a meeting of many perspectives.

Rachel Silver, an assistant professor of education at 91亚色, with the help of a team of her colleagues in both Toronto and Dadaab, has created a virtual colloquium series, Reciprocal Learning in Times of Crisis, for the Faculty's Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) program. The series considers the issues arising from the confluence of education, the COVID-19 pandemic and new waves of resistance to anti-Black racism.

Lucy Angus and Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, assistant professors new to 91亚色 and the Faculty of Education, have created a lecture series titled Disrupting Early Childhood: Inheritance, Pedagogy, Curriculum to explore new ideas about early childhood education (ECE) and create a space to bring together the innovative research conversations that are changing the field of ECE.

Innovatus is produced by the Office of the Associate Vice-President Teaching & Learning in partnership with Communications & Public Affairs.

I extend a personal invitation to you to share your experiences in teaching, learning, internationalization and the student experience through the Innovatus story form, which is available at .

Will Gage
Associate Vice-President, Teaching & Learning

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Through a series of talks, film, and an open-mic event, experts will consider the unique challenges that the twinned pandemics pose to refugee communities and educators in Canada and/or East Africa; highlight the unique knowledge that refugee communities and the educators who work with them bring to learning in situations of constraint; and offer new lenses to make meaning of our current moment.

This colloquium is the first of its kind to feature experts from 91亚色 and from institutions that are comprised of or work with refugees in equal measure. Together, this series aims to deepen connections among refugee communities, educational leaders, and scholars within and across institutions; foster a sense of reciprocity in learning; recognize and validate the unique expertise that refugee communities bring to time- or resource-constrained situations; and educate all attendees on a range of topics relevant to refugee education, COVID-19, and anti-Black racism.

The colloquium series will be held monthly throughout the academic year at 10 a.m. online via Zoom.

This month's event is "e/Thinking and Acting Holistically in our Times: Discussions on Conceptual Multiplicity" featuring (91亚色) on Oct. 7.

What lenses do we use to give meaning to a sociopolitical and economic landscape marked by questions and uncertainties? Dlamini offers her thoughts at a time of the intersection of multiple contemporary crisis and challenges including: the global pandemic, COVID-19; the public lynching of black and indigenous people; demonstrations and protests against social injustices; national and domestic border policing; anti-immigrant sentiments; etc.

In the face of these challenges and crises is a need for the spirit of hope, healing and opportunity. The international responses to these public lynchings bring hope to a possibility of re-imagining a future that, through dialogical conversations like this one, we can start and continue to re-envision, rebuild and heal. As we move forward towards a different normality, we must acknowledge and address the wounds created and those spirits murdered.

This talk offers layers of concepts for engagement towards this new era. It is an invitation to ponder about meaning making resources and their impact and effects on the 鈥渟elf鈥� as a collective 鈥� an invitation to examine interconnections between the intellect and the soul in teaching and learning. Embracing this interconnection requires that we engage thinking with tools that go beyond the familiar so as to meaningfully participate in the production of an innovative politics of existence.

Join the Zoom session at .

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