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Chasing EncountersThe Final EpisodeToday marks the end of an era but the beginning of another one. Chasing Encounters was my personal/academic project to highlight the work of others, learn from them and showcase it as a form to level the playing field in knowledge production and mobilization. Thanks to all of you who listened and supported me throughout these years.
In this final episode, Alonso Mateo, a highly experienced educator and researcher in Spain, shares with us his work through an intercultural project with the Erasmus project in Europe.
I hope you enjoy it.
2022-07-3142 min
Chasing EncountersChasing Encounters - HiatusWe are on pause and we will be coming up with more content as soon as we can. This hiatus is helping us to re-charge, re-evaluate and re-invigorate ourselves so we can come stronger.
Thanks for following us this far.
2022-02-2703 min
Chasing EncountersCES6E1-Parenting while being a graduate studentThree parents came to Chasing Encounters podcast to share their experiences about being graduate students and how their families supported them throughout their journey. We discussed how rewarding is when they feel the support of their children in difficult times.
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Meng Xiao is a scholar on international student engagement and the founder of Dream X Education Inc., an educational agency supporting international students engaging in North America.
Latifa Soliman is a faculty of English communication at Durham College and is proud to be teaching a diverse group of adult students who decided to re-join school after years of abandoning...
2021-10-1938 min
Chasing EncountersCES5SE-2021 Summer Special EpisodeDr. Katie Entigar joined us to have a conversation about their first experiences in Toronto as a new assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Katie enlightened us about what is meant by adult education. Dr. Entigar discussed how education, learning and meaning-making need to go beyond the school years as these take place in different contexts formal, informal and non-formal. In our conversation, we talked about various forms of adult education that fall into the concepts of communities of practice in which people learn from each other. Also, we considered how adult education is conceptualized depending on different contexts...
2021-08-1833 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E8-geography, territoriality and landBorn in Peru, Fernando Calderón-Figueroa accompanies us to learn about how cities have been designed to welcome or not their citizens. His research focuses on geography and territoriality with a focus on different international cities. He describes his fascination for how amazing humans have developed technology to adapt to their needs and create shelter. However, he questions the impact of built environments in urban design, and the concept of trust among people in relation to those contexts. He posits that there is a history of displacement, gentrification and social mobility that responds to how cities evolve and change over t...
2021-06-2843 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E7-Youth as peacebuildersColombian born and educated in Europe, Dr. Diana García shares her thoughts about her experiences being a woman in different contexts and how these have shaped her work with youth communities in urban and rural areas in her home country. She discusses how youth have been excluded from the Colombian sociopolitical conversations at local and larger levels. She questions her own privilege and positionality as she reflects on what she can do to support marginalized communities to challenge corruption and inequality. She asks how the national identity is constructed and what citizenship means for young students and how they c...
2021-06-1454 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E6-Problematizing academic writingWith a vast language teaching experience, Dr. Heng Hartse describes his first experiences in ESL education as he tried to understand students’ backgrounds more in depth and trying to build bridges among the international students. He talks about second language writing and the difficulties some have when it comes to adapt to the Western forms of academic writing. He also discusses the tensions, challenges and possibilities of an EFL/ESL teacher. In understanding these, Dr. Heng Hartse explains translingual practice, world languages and English as a lingua franca (ELF) as concepts that respond to the emerging multilingual students in today’s cl...
2021-06-0147 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E5-Testimonios as methodologyA true American Southerner born in Georgia and with a vast experience in South America, Dr. Jason Mizell discusses some if his work with Testimonios as a form of research methodology.
His work stems from his culture, family, and community efforts to bring the voices of the most marginalized peoples (Latinx) to the front. He describes how he uses his skills and privileges to support them and questions how linguistics can really be anti-racist from both pedagogical and empirical approaches. Dr. Mizell briefly explains what is necessary to become a researcher who uses Testimonios as a methodology, as such, you...
2021-04-1244 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E4-Religious EducationDr. Niyozov grew up in Tajikistan, former Soviet Union, in a small village and a large family. He is a true plurilingual person with a vast international experience in education and research by engaging with numerous cultural groups along the span of his life. These experiences provided an ontoepistemological rationale that has driven the work he currently does with immigrant and refugees and with religious education. In today’s episode, Dr. Niyozov argues that religious education is important because there are subjects that have not been taught in some parts of the academic world or engaged as they have become ta...
2021-02-2344 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E3-Indigenous KnowledgesMaria Montejo was in our episode to help us understand the many nuances of Indigenous knowledges and epistemologies. From animal spirits and nature, she embarks us on a journey of respect to mother earth and other living and non-living creatures. She describes the presence of a Spiritual intelligence as a way to connect through life to a deeper understanding of who we are in convergence with all elements of nature. She posits that humans would not be able to truly understand others unless we go through a process of healing the trauma and pain of our past experiences.
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2021-02-0944 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E2-International aid sectorChilean born Marlen Mondaca describes her experiences within the nonprofit organization sector. She provides some useful information about what it means to work with international and development organizations such as Seeds of Hope, Save the Children, Plan International, and OXFAM. Rooted on a rights based approach, Marlen explains that some of the objectives of these organizations are alleviating poverty, supporting local organizations, providing formal and non-formal education programs on health, nutrition and child & family protection among others.
Marlen offers specific information about the necessary skills anyone needs to pursue a career in this sector: 1) Having a good theoretical and historical...
2021-01-2641 min
Chasing EncountersCES5E1-From critical education to decolonial praxisIn today’s podcast, we have Yecid Ortega from the University of Toronto. He sees himself as a citizen of the world, and his work certainly reflects an international perspective to education and research. With a very marginalized background, he studied primary and secondary education in public schools and got interested in learning languages to understand the world. He tells the story of his life from poverty in Colombia, to working in the USA and to becoming a Canadian citizen. From a very young age, Yecid knew education was key to engage with communities and move socially. He noticed the id...
2021-01-1143 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E8-A podcast about podcastsIn this metaepisode, we had a great conversation with El CafeciTO podcast produced by Latinx students at the University of Toronto, we learned about the challenges and the possibilities of creating and producing a podcast that supports the work of our communities.
More information:
https://www.elcafecitopodcast.ca/
2020-12-2237 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E7-Filipino community engagementWith a Filipino background, Monica Batac and Hilary Naluz shared with us their work with the communities. They defy the idea that Filipinos do not go to post-secondary by demonstrating that both of them are pursuing graduate studies. With their community-oriented work, they hope to provide culturally responsive materials to youth as they engage with parents and other relatives to preserve the language and culture. One of their main goals is to help students maintain their heritage while working tirelessly towards their academic success and well-being by practicing self-care and appreciating where they are coming from.
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2020-12-0746 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E6-Performance arts - reproducing or resisting power?Shakespeare said that “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” Acting and performance are at the centre of this episode as Nae Hanashiro Avila, a PhD student here in Toronto, discusses how identity and performance relate. Of Peruvian-Japanese descent, her mixed ethnical background and her expertise in performing arts begin a conversation about how we can be true to who we are as our different identities collide: Are they performed according or in opposition to expectations? She argues that however we express our identities, we need to be aware of how those performances reprod...
2020-11-2345 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E5-Travelling as inspiration for researchGrowing up, reading was Adriana’s way to travel the world. The places, people, and cultures she read about motivated her to go and see it for herself. Finding beauty in every place she has visited, her experiences have inspired her research. Where does one experience the best of nature? Patagonia. History and architecture? Turkey. Night life? Hong Kong and Barcelona. Site-seeing aside, at the heart of her travels has been the opportunity to connect with people and learn from others about their cultures. While travelling to learn Chinese Mandarin in Taiwan, she serendipitously stumbled upon her current research focus. Li...
2020-11-0835 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E4-Comparative, international, development education and researchDrawing from her personal experiences and a critical lens, Dr. Ruth Hayhoe shares a brief history and background of the concepts of comparative, international and development research and education. She illustrates the complexity of this rich field, emphasizing that CIDE’s main goal should be about learning from others on equal terms. The paradigm that the south must learn from the north can and should be challenged. How does one begin to do this? Bidirectional listening. In this way, each country can choose its own political systems based on international cooperation rather than domination.
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Dr. Ruth Hayhoe is a pr...
2020-11-0249 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E3-Policing languageLanguage and how we communicate with each other is at the centre of this conversation with multilingual and multinational, Dr. Uju Anya. With intelligence and good humour, she provides a healthy reality check: contemporary society is multilingual and we need to face it, accept it and educate with that framework in mind. For her, this necessitates changing up how language plays a role in the classroom to reflect interactions in everyday society. How do we do this? We need to reexamine the biases and purist notions we have internalized about language. Teachers, in particular, must move from being arbiters (police...
2020-10-2552 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E2-Empowering girls education in PakistanNorin Taj takes us on a journey from and back to Pakistan in this conversation. We start with growing up in her homeland, a place that contributed to her identities of being South Asian as well as Muslim - two complex and intricate entities that cannot be separated. Moreover, she shares stories of teacher training and teaching in Pakistan before immigrating to Canada, a move that provided her the opportunity to continue being an educator and a researcher. All of these experiences led her to return to Pakistan for her research that leaves us pondering two key questions: Should education...
2020-09-2738 min
Chasing EncountersCES4E1-Water inequality in MexicoOpening this season, Canadian Mexican JP Mathias teaches how if you follow the water, you can begin to understand abstract concepts such as development/underdevelopment or how political processes affect various groups differently within a community in a tangible way. Drawing from his educational background and from his work with different organizations, he discusses and questions water management in Indigenous territories (Pueblos Originarios) in Mexico illustrating how power relations and political processes affect marginalized communities by various stakeholders in the water question. He suggests that better education can potentially raise awareness of water inequalities, whether in Mexico or here in...
2020-09-0450 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E9-Community-engaged researchWe had an interesting conversation with Dr. Balyasnikova, working at York University. In this special summer edition, we got together at Queen’s Park in Toronto to have a chat about educational gerontology and community-engaged research. From Russia to the USA and now Canada Dr. Balyasnikova describes educational gerontology as a subset of adult education and health science that tries to understand learning experiences at a later life. For example, how certain learning experiences affect ageing or how ageist stereotyping impacts learning in older adult learners. She is also interested in community-engaged research which is embedded in the idea of wo...
2020-08-0346 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E8-Solidarity in uncertain timesIn this episode, I embark on a monologue discussing what solidarity means and how it connects to ideas of community building. I answer questions from fellow colleagues who argue that solidarity goes beyond empathy and support but to acts of love and understanding others. In these unprecedented times, we have found the need to be in touch with others and show our acts of solidarity in order to survive.
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Yecid is a Ph.D. candidate in the language and literacies (LLE) educations & comparative, international, development education (CIDE) programs at OISE. His main research focuses on social justice and peacebuilding...
2020-04-2438 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E7-Higher education - identity crisisPhoebe Kang came to our Chasing Encounters studios to help us uncover how English as the language of “respect, status, power, and reputation” has become a cultural capital in non-English speaking countries, but when it comes to Canada, the ESL industry is relegated to the margins and lacks regulation - somehow ESL is perceived as not real education. When she decided to come to Canada and extend her professional endeavors, she encountered cultural, professional and economic stumbling blocks which made her question what is considered to be a good and decent job. Phoebe discusses her future research about the lack of i...
2020-04-0341 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E6-Celebrating AfrolatinidadAs an Afro Peruvian person living in the Canadian diaspora, Roxana Escobar Ñañes explains the concepts of human geography as a point of entry to understand how our lives are shaped by spaces and how our social interactions are produced. She explores Afro Peruvian communities as domestic spaces for healing and connection. She argues that “these spaces become places because we give them meanings and emotional attachments and we transform them.” Also, Roxana posits that although being black became an archetype of negativity that haunts people’s lives, blackness becomes the center of human geographies - Blackness becomes healing. She fini...
2020-03-2142 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E5-Latino or LatinxMike Mena spent some time with us to discuss his cultural and linguistic background. He helped us understand the intricacies of being Latino or Latinx in North America and other sometimes confusing identity markers such as Hispanic, Chicano or Mexican American. In our conversation, we challenged the identity labels that have been imposed when we navigate the different academic and non-academic spaces. Now, as a graduate student in New York, he problematizes what it means to be a diverse scholar in elite institutions when academic linguistic registers promote hierarchies and question our intelligence. Also, he recommends people of color to...
2020-03-1657 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E4-Chinese graduate student engagementFrom a marketing career to social justice education, Meng Xiao helps us to understand the different experiences among international students who travel from China to Canada. In her research, she examines Chinese students’ engagement in higher education. She highlights that multiple intersecting identities are defined by the students themselves, their communities and their experiences when it comes to how they engage in graduate studies. She explains that factors affecting this engagement are field-related, whether they come from the hard sciences or humanities. For example, English as a second language poses linguistic challenges when students are faced with communicating their ideas vi...
2020-03-0736 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E3-Graduate student researchToday we have Shirin, Norin and Lepin who are graduate students at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. They are the co-chairs for this year’s graduate student conferences. We discussed research engagement, knowledge mobilization and the importance of disseminating research, especially when it comes to graduate studies. As co-chairs, they came to Chasing Encounters not only to promote the conference but to have an in-depth conversation about asking intrinsic questions that help us transform our societies and explore the opportunities we find while doing research. In the end, knowledge mobilization is about connecting, le...
2020-02-2634 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E2-Deindustrializing writing educationDr. Amir Kalan talks about his upcoming book “Sociocultural and Power Relational Dimensions of Multilingual Writing”. Here, Dr. Kalan explains how Western academic writing follows a process of capitalist industrialization of levelling and separating the languages skills as if this were a mechanical system. He suggested several solutions to these mentalities such as restructuring writing classes and some pedagogical practices from creative narrative formation to collaborative and identity writing while paying attention to multimodal forms of assessment.
This podcast is also available as a video podcast through Roots Media here:
https://youtu.be/BD3bH7Pj03g
Bio:
Dr. Amir Kala...
2020-02-0255 min
Chasing EncountersCES3E1-Unstandardized podcastingFrom New York city in the United States, Justin Gerald, the host of Unstandardized English Podcast, joined us in this crossover episode to share his thoughts and ideas about starting a podcast. He went to South Korea to teach English where he got motivated to continue his research work. Growing up in white spaces, as a black person, he started questioning what it means to be educated and have economic resources. Inspired by his wife, he took this questioning to his podcast in order to engage in conversations about language and race. Although technologically difficult in the beginning, he explains...
2020-01-1228 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E8-Language race and colonialismCristina has international experience teaching in formal and informal spaces in Japan and in Canada. She was born in Trinidad and is the first woman in the family pursuing a Ph.D. We discussed how the English language has been used for domination and control but also shaped the way we think in a capitalist society. Mainly, these mentalities stem from colonization. To this, Cristina explains how colonialism is very different depending on the contexts, however, there are some patterns that help us understand what happens to the local languages, cultures and knowledges and what counts and what is being...
2019-12-1436 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E7-Ideologies of language and literacy educationBorn in Yemen with Portuguese Indian ancestry, Dr. Lynn Mario de Souza joined us in this new episode to discuss his long-standing work in linguistics and language research. He describes how the social aspect of language involves understanding that many languages are spoken across time and spaces while involving language variations that have changed throughout history. He questions the nature of language education and warns us of its consumerism, he asks what languages are being taught and for what purposes. We engaged in conversations about knowledge production and dissemination and problematize why English keeps being considered as the language of...
2019-11-2543 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E6-Duoethnograhy and language teacher trainingFor the very first time we have two guests, Michael Karas and Patrick Huang who are quite knowledgeable with the CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) programs. Michael, falling in love with languages while travelling to France and Patrick being quite musical, today, they describe their engagement in a duo-ethnographic approach to do research. First, they describe the bolts and nuts of what it means to teach and learn to get the CELTA certificate. Then, they both critically discussed their experiences teaching English in Canada and abroad as they use their conversations as data for their research. Finally...
2019-11-0439 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E5-Central Asia and language programsFarrah, a former fashion enthusiast, teaches us about her work in central Asia. She worked with local, foreign teachers and counsellors as part of academic (English, maths and science) upgrading programs for students in the region. The goal of these programs was to help students get stronger grades in language so they can perform better in the local labour market. Farrah explains how she supported students by involving them in cultural activities with music, dance, food, film and poetry, in this way anxiety is reduced and trust is built therefore sending the message that this was not only about the...
2019-10-2735 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E4-Questioning the Iranian education systemQuestioning the Iranian Education System
After the Iranian revolution, there was an education revolution trying to modernize it and thus threatening the traditional values. From Teheran to Toronto, Hooman delves into his critiques of the current Iranian system of education as he asserts that school became an ideological and revolutionary space that is currently empty to give priority to nation-building. He argues that Iran has a segregated system that affects psychologically and socially certain students. Although the system favors science and mathematics, education still revolves around some religious ideologies. He invites us to engage in questions such as: Who is...
2019-10-1340 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E3-Peru language and cultureYojana from the Andes in Peru teaches us how foreign names clash Indigenous ways of naming children and how people are accepting modernity in contemporary Peru. She describes how the Quechua language has been forbidden in some schools and the society bringing discrimination and exploitation of Indigenous women while living in the city. She shares her stories of struggle and survival with her family and the community as being an important conduit for resilience in times of scarcity. She finally helps us question who education is for and how the system streams the most marginalized peoples to trade education putting...
2019-09-3040 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E2-Implications of provincial policiesFrom a journey through different places, east to west Canada and the USA, Jacqueline Beaulieu helps us understand the connection between family, community and student collective decisions. In the first part of the podcast, we discussed how universities manage the ancillary fees and the policies that oversee the decision-making process. Jacqueline describes how opting out of services fees may or not affect vulnerable student population at universities. In the second part of the podcast, she describes how her experiences as a graduate student have inspired her to help students by providing guidance throughout her Instagram and YouTube accounts and also...
2019-09-2234 min
Chasing EncountersCES2E1-Raciolinguistic ideologiesIn this new season of Chasing Encounters, we have Dr. Jonathan Rosa from Stanford University who inspired us with his vast knowledge at the intersections of race and language. From his connections to Canada and Chicago, Dr. Rosa enlightens us with ideas of how the way race plays into perceptions of domesticity and foreignness and how his experiences have shaped his interest in broader sociopolitical questions about language, identity, history and colonialism. We also discussed what a theory of raciolinguistic ideologies means internationally and how different contexts can be used to interrogate the legacy of colonial relations as we imagine...
2019-09-0129 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E13- Special Summer Episode - Race And AccentChasing Encounters Special Summer Episode
“ I thought I was getting a Canadian teacher,” Vijay Ramjattan says when an English student thought he was a white English teacher. In this special Summer episode of Chasing Encounters, Vijay delights us with a provocative conversation about how race, whiteness and accent intersect. It is not only in Canada, but a global issue that white native speakers are preferred in the English language teaching market, especially if they speak the American variation. We discussed how a raciolinguistic narrative permeates in society through our bodies - people judge based on the relation of body/accent. Whit...
2019-07-0434 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E12-Life connectedFrom London, Ontario (Canada) and background roots in Greece, Maria help us understand how not only education has been a doorway for opportunities and experiences in life but can be a site for oppression. While attempting to challenge patriarchy and hyper-capitalism, she warns us of dangerous conceptions of freedom of expression that further invisibilize marginalized people’s voices. Maria invites us to connect back to our communities to counter notions of competition, progress and development. She questions our role in society in relation to healing and spirituality as acts of resistance by being able to have real conversations with each ot...
2019-04-3032 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E11-Social justice and decolonization for transformationDr. Nancy Carvajal, a human being under construction, helps us to understand our purpose in life as academics and as people in the making. We discussed how social justice looks from Western USA house-less peoples to displaced youth and children in rural Colombia. Interconnectedness is paramount in responding to the needs of the community and as good listeners without judging others, our roles become center to education. Decolonization not only means as a rhetorical concept but resisting Western education in which human beings are not put into boxes. Latinx, Chicanx and Indigenous epistemologies have allowed Nancy to question what has...
2019-04-2236 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E10-Literacy and Second Languages Research in EducationRaul Mora questions how language and literacies are taught in the current sociopolitical contexts around the world. Raul posits that we should be critical about engaging in discussions about what it means to be multilingual or plurilingual in different contexts in Africa, Latin America or North America. We problematize the reasons why English has become “the second language” by default in research and education without recognizing Indigenous languages as well as sign languages as part of the repertoire of language diversity. We also talked about how the school can become a site that either challenges or supports the learning of lang...
2019-04-0742 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E9-The educational researcher as a storytellerLatinx immigration to Canada has increased over the past years, and its demographics have shifted according to socio-political events in the region. Diana recounts her/story about navigating the education system in Canada as a recent immigrant, and how her rebeldía kept her going. She argues that the legacy of racism and colonialism permeates through Canadian multiculturalism. For racialized and Indigenous students to collectively succeed within the education system, schools and other educational institutions have to take responsibility for recognizing the ways in which racism and colonialism operate as part of their policies and practices. We conclude with the i...
2019-03-2929 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E8-Storytelling and translanguagingAn insightful thinker, an incredible teacher and respected researcher, Wales Wong shares her interest in storytelling and translanguaging as important aspects of meaning-making in our daily lives. From California to Hong Kong and now Toronto she brings tons of diverse experiences while using her Cantonese and English languages both academically and personally. We problematize the assumptions people make when it comes to race and language whether you are in the USA or elsewhere, there are labels that still stigmatize peoples and sometimes marginalize them. We question how we value other people’s linguistic repertoires and how they use them at di...
2019-03-2533 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E7-Imagination, possibilities and realitiesWhat happens when two personal and academic journeys collide? Marlon Valencia discusses his early research and educational influences. He helps us understand how inspiring others to make changes in the community so we can move forward in today’s society is not only an intricate task but a hard-labouring one. Marlon’s experiences from high school, undergrad and graduate studies in relation to language learning are key to his work on imagination and possibilities to forge a future. We discuss current sociopolitical situations in Colombia, Venezuela and Canada and how there has been a progressive erosion of democracy in times of f...
2019-03-1636 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E6-Exploring digital networksTeachers’ self-directed learning within the frame of International Women’s Day is the focus of this week ‘s Chasing Encounters episode, titled “Exploring Digital Networks.” Anna Bartosik, teacher-researcher, joins us to talk about digital landscapes, where a number of language teachers explore their learning. We discuss whether International Women’s Day is still relevant in academia (Savigny, 2014), Twitter as a digital landscape of practice (Wenger-Trayner & Wenger-Trayner, 2014), and how virtual and other self-directed learning have the ability to shape teacher knowledge and positionality as transformative intellectuals (Kumaravadivelu, 2003). Anna offers some tips on reaching a wider network on Twitter, suggests some female academics to...
2019-03-0835 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E5-Cooperative work and youth advocacyIn this episode, Dahlia Benedikt discusses Jewish youth movements and community movements as spaces to experience culture, support and resilience among intergenerational peoples. Dahlia explains how we understand educators as not just teachers or councillors but people who can contribute to our growth learning process as role models. She also discusses the importance of youth creating pedagogies directed to critical thinking, exploring ourselves and exploring the world. We unpack how capitalism and technologies have affected today’s youth and what is necessary to survive in this evolving world.
Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2019, March 5). Chasing Encounters - Episode...
2019-03-0435 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E4-Immigration and identityIn this episode, Zehra and Yecid question what we mean by being a Canadian immigrant or a Canadian citizen. We wonder what Canadian values are and how we are supposed to integrate into the system. Zehra’s research look at Turkish and Kurdish immigrants in Canada by using a photovoice approach to understand their experiences and ultimately to question what we are all doing for immigrants
Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2019, February 18). Chasing Encounters - Episode - 4 – Immigration and Identity [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/immigration-and-identity
Sources:
The Canadian Council for Refugees
https://ccrweb.ca/
Cana...
2019-02-1931 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E3-Discovering NepalIn this episode, Yecid and Pushpa from Nepal talk about languages, education and cultures. We delve into personal connections with the communities and the role of languages and English in everyday life as well as the importance of preserving home languages.
Sources:
Giri, R. A. (2010). Cultural anarchism: the consequences of privileging languages in Nepal. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 31(1), 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434630903398103
Issa, T., & Hatt, A. (2013). Language, Culture and Identity in the Early Years. A&C Black.
Nepal Information: https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NP
Renata Flores (Peru): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQUrV_v7OK8
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2019-02-0928 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E3-Our communityThis conversation between Yecid and Mama discusses their ideas about community and family and how we have supported them personally and academically. Concepts of communities of practice(Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1999), (de)colonization (Fanon, 1963, 2008; Rivera Cusicanqui, 2010) and knowledge creation (Santos, 2008) are being discussed to how we relate to the world we live today as we move away from isolation and hermit practices.
Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2019, February 4). Chasing Encounters - Episode - 2 - Our community [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/episode-2-our-community
2019-02-0230 min
Chasing EncountersCES1E1-Our linguistic and cultural journeysThis conversation between Yecid and Claudio explores their own visions on ideology, capitalism, identity and language in today’s world. As a point of entry, we deploy our ideas based in the concept of investment (Norton, 2013; Peirce, 1995) as a form of identity navigation in our lived experiences as language educators and researchers in different contexts.
Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2019, January 21). Chasing Encounters - Episode - 1 - Our Linguistic And Cultural Journeys [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/chasing-encounters-our-linguistic-and-cultural-journeys
2019-01-2234 min