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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 70: Aaron TeoIn Episode 70 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Aaron Teo is a Singaporean Chinese first generation migrant settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands. He currently works as a sociologist of education at the University of Southern Queensland. Our conversation centers on his research into the racialized and gendered subjectivities of migrant teachers and students from Asia within...
2026-02-1357 minFOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 70: Aaron TeoIn Episode 70 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Aaron Teo is a Singaporean Chinese first generation migrant settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands. He currently works as a sociologist of education at the University of Southern Queensland. Our conversation centers on his research into the racialized and gendered subjectivities of migrant teachers and students from Asia within...
2026-02-1357 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Aaron TeoIn Episode 70 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Aaron Teo is a Singaporean Chinese first generation migrant settler living on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands. He currently works as a sociologist of education at the University of Southern Queensland. Our conversation centers on his research into the racialized and gendered subjectivities of migrant teachers and students from Asia within the Australian context, and the enduring legacies of White Australia in contemporary schooling and teacher education. Dr. Teo reflects on his journey from international student to secondary teacher and middle leader in Queensland, and ultimately to doctoral studies shaped by autoethnography and d...
2026-02-1357 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 69: Leyton SchnellertIn Episode 69 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Leyton Schnellert, an Associate Professor, at the University of British Columbia and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship. Our conversation examines his decades of community-engaged research with rural communities and self-advocates across British Columbia. We discuss Growing Innovation in Rural Sites of Learning and how rural educators are resisting deficit narratives...
2025-12-2959 minFOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 69: Leyton SchnellertIn Episode 69 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Leyton Schnellert, an Associate Professor, at the University of British Columbia and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship. Our conversation examines his decades of community-engaged research with rural communities and self-advocates across British Columbia. We discuss Growing Innovation in Rural Sites of Learning and how rural educators are resisting deficit narratives...
2025-12-2959 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Leyton SchnellertIn Episode 69 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Leyton Schnellert, an Associate Professor, at the University of British Columbia and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship. Our conversation examines his decades of community-engaged research with rural communities and self-advocates across British Columbia. We discuss Growing Innovation in Rural Sites of Learning and how rural educators are resisting deficit narratives by cultivating rural cultural wealth, community-based inquiry, and place-conscious pedagogies in the face of teacher shortages and the persistent urban pull. Dr. Leyton Schnellert also reflects on participatory disability theatre projects, such as but not limited to T...
2025-12-2959 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 68: Laura MadokoroIn Episode 68 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Laura Madokoro, a mixed-generation settler historian from Quebec’s Eastern Townships and a leading scholar of migration, refuge, and humanitarianism. Now an Associate Professor at Carleton University, she draws on the intersecting confluences of an archivist, journalist, and historian to illustrate how stories surface held, and circulated within and by “humanitarian”...
2025-12-051h 04FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 68: Laura MadokoroIn Episode 68 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Laura Madokoro, a mixed-generation settler historian from Quebec’s Eastern Townships and a leading scholar of migration, refuge, and humanitarianism. Now an Associate Professor at Carleton University, she draws on the intersecting confluences of an archivist, journalist, and historian to illustrate how stories surface held, and circulated within and by “humanitarian”...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Laura MadokoroIn Episode 68 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook hosts Dr. Laura Madokoro, a mixed-generation settler historian from Quebec’s Eastern Townships and a leading scholar of migration, refuge, and humanitarianism. Now an Associate Professor at Carleton University, she draws on the intersecting confluences of an archivist, journalist, and historian to illustrate how stories surface held, and circulated within and by “humanitarian” settler colonial nation-states. Her first book, Elusive Refuge, reshaped understandings of the racialized politics of refugee admission, while her new book, Sanctuary in Pieces, examines two centuries of sanctuary, (re)fugitivity, and urban displacement. She also leads The Disaster Lab and Sites of Sanc...
2025-12-051h 04
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 67: Marie BattisteIn Episode 67 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Marie Battiste is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation, a member of the Potlotek First Nation and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan and one of the most influential scholars of Indigenous education in Canada. Her groundbreaking scholarship has advanced the work of decolonizing education, cognitive justice, and protecting Indigenous...
2025-10-1758 minFOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 67: Marie BattisteIn Episode 67 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Marie Battiste is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation, a member of the Potlotek First Nation and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan and one of the most influential scholars of Indigenous education in Canada. Her groundbreaking scholarship has advanced the work of decolonizing education, cognitive justice, and protecting Indigenous...
2025-10-1758 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Marie BattisteIn Episode 67 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Marie Battiste is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation, a member of the Potlotek First Nation and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan and one of the most influential scholars of Indigenous education in Canada. Her groundbreaking scholarship has advanced the work of decolonizing education, cognitive justice, and protecting Indigenous knowledges, shaping curriculum studies and educational policy across the country. Dr. Battiste has authored several books such as but not limited to Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit, co-authored Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Herit...
2025-10-1758 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 66: Philip S. S. HowardDr. Philip S. S. Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University’s Faculty of Education, where he explores the social formations, pedagogical processes, and epistemological frameworks that shape how we understand ourselves, form identities, and exercise agency in the context of antiblackness, colonialism, and racial injustice. Dr. Howard’s recent projects include an...
2025-09-081h 00FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 66: Philip S. S. HowardDr. Philip S. S. Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University’s Faculty of Education, where he explores the social formations, pedagogical processes, and epistemological frameworks that shape how we understand ourselves, form identities, and exercise agency in the context of antiblackness, colonialism, and racial injustice. Dr. Howard’s recent projects include an...
2025-09-081h 00
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 65: James P. BurnsIn Episode 65 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. James P. Burns an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of New Mexico. Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, Dr. James P. Burns was an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at Florida International University and an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University. His research interests include curriculum theory, Foucauldian studies, violence, ethics of non-violence, fascism, education...
2025-06-111h 03FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 65: James P. BurnsIn Episode 65 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. James P. Burns an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of New Mexico. Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, Dr. James P. Burns was an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at Florida International University and an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University. His research interests include curriculum theory, Foucauldian studies, violence, ethics of non-violence, fascism, education...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. James P. BurnsIn Episode 65 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. James P. Burns an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of New Mexico. Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, Dr. James P. Burns was an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at Florida International University and an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University. His research interests include curriculum theory, Foucauldian studies, violence, ethics of non-violence, fascism, education policy, and masculinities studies. We discussed the following: Whose knowledge is of most worth, his reflections on Israel, Gaza, epistemicide, truth, and the banality of evil, history, myth of th...
2025-06-111h 03
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 64: Claudia EppertIn Episode 64 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Claudia Eppert a Professor of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the ethics of witnessing social and ecological suffering and trauma through literary, aesthetic, and mindful, contemplative, holistic engagements, along with exploration of the possibilities of psycho-social transformation to a more just, compassionate, and regenerative world. We discussed the following: her educative lived...
2025-04-171h 11FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 64: Claudia EppertIn Episode 64 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Claudia Eppert a Professor of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the ethics of witnessing social and ecological suffering and trauma through literary, aesthetic, and mindful, contemplative, holistic engagements, along with exploration of the possibilities of psycho-social transformation to a more just, compassionate, and regenerative world. We discussed the following: her educative lived...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Claudia EppertIn Episode 64 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Claudia Eppert a Professor of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the ethics of witnessing social and ecological suffering and trauma through literary, aesthetic, and mindful, contemplative, holistic engagements, along with exploration of the possibilities of psycho-social transformation to a more just, compassionate, and regenerative world. We discussed the following: her educative lived experiences, teaching, graduate studies, literary studies and engagement, cross-cultural philosophical studies, memory work, life writing research, historical witnessing, shadow texts and questions, mindfulness, Buddhism, non-dualism and basic goodness, ecological witnessing, species extinction, and so much more
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 63: Mark Priestley & Stavroula PhilippouIn Episode 63 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Mark Priestley and Dr. Stavroula Philippou. Dr. Priestley is a Professor of Education at the University of Stirling. His research focuses in part on the processes of curriculum making across the different layers of education systems. He is also the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making. Dr. Stavroula Philippou is an Associate Professor in...
2025-03-301h 02FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 63: Mark Priestley & Stavroula PhilippouIn Episode 63 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Mark Priestley and Dr. Stavroula Philippou. Dr. Priestley is a Professor of Education at the University of Stirling. His research focuses in part on the processes of curriculum making across the different layers of education systems. He is also the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making. Dr. Stavroula Philippou is an Associate Professor in...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Mark Priestley and Dr. Stavroula PhilippouIn Episode 63 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Mark Priestley and Dr. Stavroula Philippou. Dr. Priestley is a Professor of Education at the University of Stirling. His research focuses in part on the processes of curriculum making across the different layers of education systems. He is also the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making. Dr. Stavroula Philippou is an Associate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching within the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus. Both represent their respective countries as national Representatives of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS). Both are Co-convenors who su...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 62: Laura ForsytheIn Episode 62 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Laura Forsythe a Michif Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. She is the elected Bison Local Chairperson of the Manitoba Métis Federation, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Métis. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her...
2025-03-241h 01FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 62: Laura ForsytheIn Episode 62 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Laura Forsythe a Michif Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. She is the elected Bison Local Chairperson of the Manitoba Métis Federation, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Métis. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Laura ForsytheIn Episode 62 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Laura Forsythe a Michif Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. She is the elected Bison Local Chairperson of the Manitoba Métis Federation, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Métis. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Métis space called Pakan Town. Her research focuses on Métis-specific contribu...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 61: Garry Gottfriedson & Victoria HandfordIn Episode 61 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Garry Gottfriedson and Dr. Victoria Handford. Strongly rooted in his Secwépemc cultural teachings Garry Gottfriedson holds a Master of Arts Education degree from Simon Fraser University and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Naropa Institute in Colorado. He has published numerous books of poetry. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorates from the University of Northern British Columbia and Thompson...
2025-02-111h 13FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 61: Garry Gottfriedson & Victoria HandfordIn Episode 61 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Garry Gottfriedson and Dr. Victoria Handford. Strongly rooted in his Secwépemc cultural teachings Garry Gottfriedson holds a Master of Arts Education degree from Simon Fraser University and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Naropa Institute in Colorado. He has published numerous books of poetry. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorates from the University of Northern British Columbia and Thompson...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Garry Gottfriedson and Dr. Victoria HandfordIn Episode 61 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Garry Gottfriedson and Dr. Victoria Handford. Strongly rooted in his Secwépemc cultural teachings Dr. Garry Gottfriedson holds a Master of Arts Education degree from Simon Fraser University and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Naropa Institute in Colorado. He has published numerous books of poetry. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorates from the University of Northern British Columbia and Thompson Rivers University. Dr. Victoria (Tory) Handford holds a doctorate in Education Leadership from OISE at the University of Toronto. She is a professor in the Faculty of Edu...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 60: Joel WestheimerIn Episode 60 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Joel Westheimer a Professor of Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa, musician, and the education columnist for CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Show. He is the author of What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good. We discussed the following: family, what brought him to the teaching profession, election campaign and day in United States,...
2025-01-201h 00
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Joel WestheimerIn Episode 60 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Joel Westheimer a Professor of Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa, musician, and the education columnist for CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Show. He is the author of What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good. We discussed the following: family, what brought him to the teaching profession, election campaign and day in United States, the Presidential Inauguration, political and economic mobilization of young men via social media, censorship, freedom of speech, backlash against universities, academic freedom, facilitating debates and pluriverse perspectives in the classroom, his new book, exa...
2025-01-201h 00
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 59: Andrea SterzukIn Episode 59 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Andrea Sterzuk a Professor of Education at the University of Regina which is part of Treaty 4 and resides on the traditional territories of the nēhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda Peoples, and homeland of the Michif/Métis Nation. She is a former French immersion and Core French teacher with classroom teaching experience in Saskatchewan and in...
2025-01-1355 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Andrea SterzukIn Episode 59 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Andrea Sterzuk a Professor of Education at the University of Regina which is part of Treaty 4 and resides on the traditional territories of the nēhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda Peoples, and homeland of the Michif/Métis Nation. She is a former French immersion and Core French teacher with classroom teaching experience in Saskatchewan and in the Northwest Territories. Dr. Andrea Sterzuk grew up in rural Saskatchewan. When she was a child, most adults in her town were white settlers, bilingual and either immigrants themselves or children of immigran...
2025-01-1355 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 58: Lisa Kortoweg & Tesa FiddlerIn Episode 58 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Lisa Korteweg and Tesa Fiddler. They work as educational researchers, teacher educators, colleagues, and friends in Thunder Bay, on the traditional territory of the Fort Williams First Nations-Anemki Wajiw (signatory to the 1850 Robinson-Superior treaty). Tesa Fiddler is Anishinaabekwe from Kitchinuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Onigaming First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Tesa Fiddler is currently on secondment as an Education Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Education from her...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Lisa Kortoweg and Tesa FiddlerIn Episode 58 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Lisa Korteweg and Tesa Fiddler. They work as educational researchers, teacher educators, colleagues, and friends in Thunder Bay, on the traditional territory of the Fort Williams First Nations-Anemki Wajiw (signatory to the 1850 Robinson-Superior treaty). Tesa Fiddler is Anishinaabekwe from Kitchinuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Onigaming First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. Tesa Fiddler is currently on secondment as an Education Officer for the Ontario Ministry of Education from her role as the Coordinator of Indigenous Education for Thunder Bay Catholic DSB. Dr. Lisa Korteweg is an associate professor at Lakehead University. Her community-based work focuses on que...
2025-01-081h 06
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 57: Margaret Macintyre Latta, Bill Cohen, Terry Beaudry, & Jody Dlouhy-NelsonIn Episode 57 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta, Dr. Bill Cohen, Terry Beaudry, & Dr. Jody Dlouhy-Nelson. They work at UBC Okanagan and co-lead a SSHRC Partnership grant titled Co-Curricular-Making: Honoring Indigenous Connections to Land, Culture and the Relational Self. We discussed the following: importance of storying the wisdom that sits in the places we live, unlearning and learning...
2024-12-301h 29FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 57: Margaret Macintyre Latta, Bill Cohen, Terry Beaudry, & Jody Dlouhy-NelsonIn Episode 57 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta, Dr. Bill Cohen, Terry Beaudry, & Dr. Jody Dlouhy-Nelson. They work at UBC Okanagan and co-lead a SSHRC Partnership grant titled Co-Curricular-Making: Honoring Indigenous Connections to Land, Culture and the Relational Self. We discussed the following: importance of storying the wisdom that sits in the places we live, unlearning and learning...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Margaret Macintyre Latta, Dr. Bill Cohen, Terry Beaudry, & Dr. Jody Dlouhy-NelsonIn Episode 57 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta, Dr. Bill Cohen, Terry Beaudry, & Dr. Jody Dlouhy-Nelson. They work at UBC Okanagan and co-lead a SSHRC Partnership grant titled Co-Curricular-Making: Honoring Indigenous Connections to Land, Culture and the Relational Self. We discussed the following: importance of storying the wisdom that sits in the places we live, unlearning and learning with Syilx Okanagan Elders, Knowledge Keepers, Residential School Survivors, community members, teachers, and students, food, water, land, mental health and wellness securities, (Re)Syilx(izing) educational knowledge, curriculum and pedagogies, co-creating knowledge, climate change, travels across Turtle Island along its riv...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 56: Melanie JanzenIn Episode 56 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Melanie Janzen a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba. Her research uses critical perspectives to explore the inter-related workings of power and discourses, particularly as they relate to the experiences of teachers and the marginalization of children. Dr. Melanie Janzen was a classroom teacher for 15 years. She is life-long Winnipegger, living and working...
2024-11-1459 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Melanie JanzenFooknconversation talking about “Academicky” Stuff Description for Episode 56 (Dr. Melanie Janzen): In Episode 56 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Melanie Janzen a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba. Her research uses critical perspectives to explore the inter-related workings of power and discourses, particularly as they relate to the experiences of teachers and the marginalization of children. Dr. Melanie Janzen was a classroom teacher for 15 years. She is life-long Winnipegger, living and working on Treaty One Territory. We discussed the following: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, historical contexts of Winnipeg, impacts of electing Wab Kin...
2024-11-1459 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 55: Heather StoneIn Episode 55 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Heather Stone an Associate Professor who holds the Nalley E.P./LEQSF Endowed Professorship in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has over fifteen years of experience in education and has developed curricula for K-12, college, and community projects. The curriculum is...
2024-11-0955 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Heather StoneIn Episode 55 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Heather Stone an Associate Professor who holds the Nalley E.P./LEQSF Endowed Professorship in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has over fifteen years of experience in education and has developed curricula for K-12, college, and community projects. The curriculum is derived from the oral histories she collects with and alongside different coastal communities who are losing their land due to climate change. We discussed the following: oral history methodologies, the lived experiences of rural communities during the desegregation of K-12 public schooling syst...
2024-11-0855 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 54: Krista McCrackenIn Episode 54 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Krista McCracken an award winning public historian and archivist. They work as a Researcher/Curator at Algoma University’s Arthur A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, in Baawating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) on the Robinson-Huron Treaty territory, the traditional territories of the Anishnaabeg, specifically the Garden River and Batchewana First Nations. Krista’s research...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffKrista McCrackenIn Episode 54 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Krista McCracken an award winning public historian and archivist. They work as a Researcher/Curator at Algoma University’s Arthur A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, in Baawating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) on the Robinson-Huron Treaty territory, the traditional territories of the Anishnaabeg, specifically the Garden River and Batchewana First Nations. Krista’s research and podcast focus on community archives, residential schooling system, access, and outreach. We discussed the following: history of the residential and day schooling systems, the creation and evolution of the Shingwauk Residential School, decolonial archival futures, educational programs and servic...
2024-10-0752 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 53: Maria Luiza SüssekindIn Episode 53 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Maria Luiza Süssekind a Professor, mother and grandmother, feminist and activist, and writer from the Global South. She currently does research and teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State. She is a member of the council for Human Rights policies of the Ministry of Education. We discussed the following:...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Maria Luiza SüssekindFooknconversation talking about “Academicky” Stuff Description for Episode 53 (Dr. Maria Luiza Süssekind): In Episode 53 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Maria Luiza Süssekind a Professor, mother and grandmother, feminist and activist, and writer from the Global South. She currently does research and teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State. She is a member of the council for Human Rights policies of the Ministry of Education. We discussed the following: lived experiences as a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and University of Ottawa, studying autobiographical research, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, navigatin...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 52: Bryan SmithIn Episode 52 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Bryan Smith a Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences education at James Cook University. His research looks at anti-racist and decolonizing readings of humanities and social sciences education. Specifically, his work critically interrogates place, colonial and racialized logics in curriculum practice, and the convergence of history, geography, and citizenship...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Bryan SmithIn Episode 52 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Bryan Smith a Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences education at James Cook University. His research looks at anti-racist and decolonising readings of humanities and social sciences education. Specifically, his work critically interrogates place, colonial and racialized logics in curriculum practice, and the convergence of history, geography, and citizenship education in re-imagining local and global places. His current line of work looks at the making of settler place and how everyday features of the urban landscape writes settler possession into the material and symbolic spaces of communities. We discussed the following: troubling his li...
2024-06-181h 09
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 51: Dennis Shirley & Andy HargreavesIn Episode 51 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Shirley & Dr. Hargreaves. Both are Research Professors at Boston College. Dr. Dennis Shirley is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. Dr. Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at UOttawa and Co-Director of a Canadian Playful Schools Network. They have collaborated as writers, teachers,...
2024-03-2955 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Shirley Dennis & Dr. Andy HargreavesIn Episode 51 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Shirley & Dr. Hargreaves. Both are Research Professors at Boston College. Dr. Dennis Shirley is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. Dr. Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at UOttawa and Co-Director of a Canadian Playful Schools Network. They have collaborated as writers, teachers, speakers, and advisers for almost 20 years. We discussed some of the following issues: lived experiences as transnational migrants and academics, collaborations with ministries of education, school board leaders and teachers in Alberta, Ontario, England, and United States, life transitions, the failure to engage white working class...
2024-03-2955 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 50: Stephen HurleyIn Episode 50 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Stephen Hurley. Stephen Hurley is the Founder and Chief Catalyst at voicEd Radio. Combining a life-long love of radio and an intense 30-year career in public education, Stephen is passionate about finding ways to enliven the public square with vibrant conversations about learning, teaching, schooling, and education in...
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Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffStephen HurleyIn Episode 50 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Stephen Hurley the Founder and Chief Catalyst at voicEd Radio. Combining a life-long love of radio and an intense 30-year career in public education, Stephen Hurley is passionate about finding ways to enliven the public square with vibrant conversations about learning, teaching, schooling, and education in its broadest sense. We discussed some of the following issues: his lived experiences in relation to lunchtime radio stations, makerspaces, creating an online live radio and podcasting ecosystem as a public square, trial and tribulations of being a host, experimenting, negotiating, and a...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 49: Alana ButlerIn Episode 49 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Alana Butler an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University. Dr. Alana Butler’s research interests include the academic achievement of low-socio economic students, race and schooling, equity and inclusion, and multicultural education. We discussed some of the following issues: growing up in Scarborough, British colonial educational system in the Caribbean,...
2024-01-031h 05
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Alana ButlerIn Episode 49 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Alana Butler an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University. Dr. Alana Butler's research interests include the academic achievement of low-socio economic students, race and schooling, equity and inclusion, and multicultural education. We discussed some of the following issues: growing up in Scarborough, British colonial educational system in the Caribbean, decolonial love, academic streaming, immigrant families learning to transition to Canadian educational systems, pivotal role of teachers, understanding impacts of microaggressions, stereotyping expectations in relation to different racialized students as teachers, navigating the different opportunities and challenges of doctoral studies as international students, becoming an...
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FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 48: Janice ForsythIn Episode 48 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Janice Forsyth, member of the Fisher River Cree Nation and Professor in Indigenous Land-Based Physical Culture and Wellness in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies and research methodologies, Dr. Forsyth’s research combines history and sociology to understand the differing...
2023-10-0154 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Janice ForsythFooknconversation talking about “Academicky” Stuff Description for Episode 48 (Dr. Janice Forsyth): In Episode 47 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Forsyth, member of the Fisher River Cree Nation and Professor in Indigenous Land-Based Physical Culture and Wellness in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies and research methodologies, Dr. Forsyth’s research combines history and sociology to understand the differing historical and contemporary relationships among sports, culture, power, and politics. We discussed some of the following issues: disenfranchisement and Bill C-31; negotiating culture on a daily basis; working through individual, systemic, and societal racisms as a s...
2023-09-3054 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 47: Sara Florence DavidsonIn Episode 47 Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Sara Florence Davidson, (Sgaan Jaadgu San Glans), a Haida/Settler Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on Indigenous pedagogies, literacies, and stories. She is the co-author of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning through Ceremony and the Sk’ad’a Stories, a picture book series based...
2023-09-071h 00
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Sara Florence DavidsonIn Episode 47 Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Sara Florence Davidson, (Sgaan Jaadgu San Glans), a Haida/Settler Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on Indigenous pedagogies, literacies, and stories. She is the co-author of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning through Ceremony and the Sk’ad’a Stories, a picture book series based on her family’s stories which highlights Indigenous pedagogies and intergenerational learning. We discussed some of the following issues: Wildfires in British Columbia and Northwest Territories, evacuations, impacts of climate change, love of literature, her family genealogies and hi...
2023-09-071h 00
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 46: Janet MillerIn Episode 46 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Janet Miller, a Professor Emerita at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research transects the interdisciplinary as well as national and international borders of curriculum theorizing, feminisms and post-inflected versions of autobiography and qualitative research. Her research prioritizes feminist interrogations of autobiography focused on issues of difference, research, collaboration,...
2023-06-201h 05
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 45: Nichole GuilloryIn Episode 45 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Nichole Guillory, a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Department of Secondary and Middle Grades Education and an affiliated faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Kennesaw State University. She currently teaches courses in family and community engagement in teacher education and Black feminism in interdisciplinary...
2023-03-281h 05
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 44: Amal MadibboIn Episode 44 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Amal Madibbo an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Dr. Amal Madibbo shares her insights about Blackness and La Francophonie. We discussed some of the following issues: her research projects in Italy, Sudan, and Louisiana, cosmopolitan citizenship,...
2022-12-2950 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 43: Heather McGregorIn Episode 43 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Heather McGregor an Assistant Professor within the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. Dr. Heather McGregor shares her insights about history education, settler colonial studies, urgency for us to address climate change, and the Anthropocene. We discussed some of the following issues: negotiating current contexts of COVID-19 pandemic,...
2022-12-1355 min
Histoire d’enseignerConversation avec Nicholas Ng-A-Fook: Réconciliation et pensée historiqueDans cet épisode d’Histoire d’enseigner, Charles Durocher s’entretient avec Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, professeur des études de curriculum et vice-doyen des études supérieures à la Faculté d’éducation de l’Université d’Ottawa (https://education.uottawa.ca/en/people/ng-fook-nicholas). La conversation porte entre autres sur le désapprentissage du colonialisme, sur les enjeux épistémologiques liés à l’enseignement de l’histoire des Premiers Peuples et sur les avantages et les limites de l’utilisation des concepts de la pensée historique dans l’enseignement de l’histoire au secondaire. Musique par Charles Durocher.Lecture en lien avec cet épisode:Howell...
2022-12-0839 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 42: Ardavan EizadiradIn Episode 42 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad an Assistant Professor within the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also the Chair of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization (EDI&I) Coalition. He is a community activist with the Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE). Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad shares his insights...
2022-11-1654 min
FOOKNCONVERSATIONEpisode 41: Jennifer MacDonaldIn Episode 41 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Jennifer MacDonald, an Assistant Professor at University of Regina’s Faculty of Education. Dr. Jennifer MacDonald shares insights about her research on social change, ecological healing, and wayfinding. We discussed some of the following issues: navigating transitions in life, as a doctoral student to Assistant Professor, and to a...
2022-10-311h 00
Decolonizing Professional LearningThe Road to St. John's - Nicholas Ng-A-FookNicholas Ng-A-Fook is a Professor and Vice-Dean of Graduate Programs at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. Nicholas joins me to kick off the series with a conversation about how our thinking about professional learning networks can be disturbed and decolonized. We also talk about the upcoming gathering in St. John's, NL, and some of the questions that might emerge during that event. Find out more about Nicholas at https://education.uottawa.ca/en/people/ng-fook-nicholasBe sure to check out Nicholas' podcast, Fookn Conversations heard on voicEd Radio and wherever you get your podcasts.
2022-07-2020 min
Educate the Earth's Research TimeEpisode Twelve: Relationality of Curriculum and Reconciliation under the Supervision of Keri Cheechoo and Nicholas-Ng-A-Fook with your HostTawnshi folks! Articles: Ng-A-Fook, N. (2005). A curriculum of mother-son plots on education's center stage. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 21(4), 43-58.Cheechoo, K. (2020). Reframing reconciliation: Turning our back or turning back? In Cote-Meek, S., & Moeke-Pickering, T. (Eds.), Decolonizing and Indigenizing education in Canada (1st ed., pp. 247-265). ProQuest eBook Central.Brant, K., Cheechoo, K., McGuire-Adams, T., Vaudren-Charette, J., & Ng-A-Fook, N. (2017). Indigenizing ivory towers: Poetic inquiry, métissage, and reconcilia(c)tion. In E. Lyle (Ed.), At the intersection of selves and subject (1st ed., pp. 87–104). Sense Publishers.In this episode I unpack the works of my supervisors, being...
2022-02-2142 min
Educate the Earth's Research TimeEpisode Twelve: Relationality of Curriculum and Reconciliation under the Supervision of Keri Cheechoo and Nicholas-Ng-A-Fook with your Host Madelaine McCrackenTawnshi folks! Articles: Ng-A-Fook, N. (2005). A curriculum of mother-son plots on education's center stage. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 21(4), 43-58.Cheechoo, K. (2020). Reframing reconciliation: Turning our back or turning back? In Cote-Meek, S., & Moeke-Pickering, T. (Eds.), Decolonizing and Indigenizing education in Canada (1st ed., pp. 247-265). ProQuest eBook Central.Brant, K., Cheechoo, K., McGuire-Adams, T., Vaudren-Charette, J., & Ng-A-Fook, N. (2017). Indigenizing ivory towers: Poetic inquiry, métissage, and reconcilia(c)tion. In E. Lyle (Ed.), At the intersection of selves and subject (1st ed., pp. 87–104). Sense Publishers.In this episode I unpac...
2022-02-2142 min
On Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookOral History, Education and Justice ft. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and GuestsNicholas Ng-A-Fook is joined by Drs. Kristina Llewellyn (University of Waterloo), Tim Stanley (University of Ottawa) and Aparna Mishra Tarc (York University) for the first of a series of conversation about an edited collection of chapters on the importance of Oral History in our journey towards Reconciliation and Justice in Canada. In this conversation, we talk about what constitutes oral history, its importance in understanding the relationships among people and how members of settler communities should prepare to listen to the oral histories of racialized individuals and communities. Find out more about the collection, Oral History...
2021-04-0537 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Sara SchroeterLors de l’émission no. 23, le professeur Nicholas Ng-A-Fook discute avec Sara Schroeter, professeure adjointe en didactique de l’art dramatique à la Faculté d’éducation à l’Université de Régina. Au cours de leur conversation, Sara Schroeter s’appuie sur la théorie critique de la race, l’art dramatique et le théâtre de l’opprimé pour partager ses expériences comme chercheuse dans les écoles de langue française en milieux minoritaires. Nous abordons l’actualité et les concepts suivants: la pandémie de la COVID-19, les iniquités à ce sujet pour les femmes et les communautés racisées, l’accès (ou non) aux tech...
2021-03-2557 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookCelebrating French Canadian Language and Culture ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookMarch is Mois de la francophonie at the University of Ottawa and this morning Nicholas Ng-A-Fook joins us to talk about recognizing, celebrating and nurturing Francophone culture right across Canada. Find out about celebrations at the University of Ottawa by visiting: https://uocal.uottawa.ca/en/node/12383
2021-03-0327 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Tasha AusmanIn Episode 22 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Tasha Ausman, a Part-Time Professor at the University of Ottawa, and a full-time science and mathematics teacher with Western Quebec School Board. During their conversation, Dr. Tasha Ausman draws on decolonizing, psychoanalytic, and post-colonial frameworks to share insights on her lived experiences as a classroom teacher during the COVID-19 Pandemic. We discussed some of the following issues and concepts: teacher safety and security, rethinking one’s pedagogy and relations with students, understanding and responding to mathematic anxieties, navigating psychic and emotional vulnerabilities, being in families’ homes virtually, toward decolonizing one’s school community, troubling spirit...
2021-02-2651 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookIndigenizing Education? ft. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Lise FarquharNIcholas Ng-A-Fook is the vice-Dean of Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. We gather this morning around the indigenization of education, what it means, who it benefits, as well as different points of entry into the conversation. Lise Farquhar hung around this morning to join in on the conversation. Some of our conversation this morning was based on this article by Four Arrows:https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/186438
2021-02-2528 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookSocial Action Curriculum and Student Identity ft. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Rick KellyDr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook joins us from the University of Ottawa to tell us about a 2007 Social Action Curriculum Project in which he and Dr. Linda Radford were involved. We use the project to pick on some of the ideas that Rick Kelly and I explored earlier in the morning, including student identity, status and leaning into a more authentic type of work. Rick Kelly joins us for this conversation to offer his perspective and insights.
2021-02-1827 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookOn RESKN - the work and its continued impact ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookDr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is Vice Dean at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. In today's conversation, we talk about Nicholas' work with RSEKN, and that initiatives connection with KNAER, the Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research. Today, we take time to explore the work of RSEKN, its underlying principles and the impact that it continues to have .We also begin to talk about how to prepare teachers to have conversations about controversial and politically-charged events and issues in the classroom. To be continued! https://rsekn.ca
2021-02-1127 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Amélie LemieuxIn Episode 21 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Amélie Lemieux is an Assistant Professor at Mount St. Vincent University. During their conversation, Dr. Amélie Lemieux draws on phenomenology, posthumanism, and literacy studies to share her insights on living, teaching and researching during the COVID-19 Pandemic. We discussed some of the following issues and concepts: Atlantic snowstorms, teaching online, deconstructing literacies, mapping methodologies, life history in Montreal, learning to speak English at school, translation, plurilingual entanglements, agential cuts, transdisciplinarity, makerspace research and education, pedagogical experimentations, process-focus making, poetry, art, multimodal frameworks, material combinations, tinkering, literacy events, material and affective contexts of th...
2021-02-0755 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookThe Power and Beauty of Oral Storytelling ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookNicholas Ng-A-Fook is here to explore an oral storytelling project in which he was involved during his time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We talk about the power of the stories, about inviting others to tell their stories and the impact that both have had on Nicholas and his work. Powerful conversation that sheds light on a history that might have, otherwise, flown under the radar. https://oralhistory.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2014/07/02/osbr-site-shares-mckinley-high-school-oral-histories-online/https://batonrougedigitalarchive.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15196coll3/id/15/
2021-02-0432 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookProject of Heart ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookDr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook joins me on Hurley in the Morning to talk about Project of Heart—— an inquiry based, hands-on, collaborative, inter-generational, artistic journey of seeking truth about the history of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. Our conversation takes us into the origins of the project, the process of becoming involved, the resources available through the project website and a view to teaching and learning history that sees past, present and future as opportunities for truth and reconciliation. Visit https://projectofheartontario.ca/ for more information
2021-01-2841 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookSo much in a name ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookDr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook joins us from Ottawa to discuss the discovery of the origins of his name, the importance of narrative inquiry and the concept of currere.
2021-01-2227 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Lisa FarleyIn Episode 20 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Lisa Farley, an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Research, at York University. During their conversation, Dr. Farley draws on psychoanalysis, childhood studies, and history education to share her insights on living and working during the COVID-19 Pandemic. They discuss some of the following issues and concepts: Atlantic bubble, wearing masks, family pack walks in Toronto, serving her research community, child analyst D.W. Winnicott’s work, interpreting public emergency policies, tropes of childhood memories, innocence, nuisance making, playful antics, punishable acts, troubling settler colonial figures of the “child,” a psychoanalytic critique of debates relate...
2021-01-2056 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookA Curriculum of Place ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookDr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Vice Dean at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, joins me to talk about his grounding dissertation research based on his time with the The United Houma Nation in Louisiana. We talk about the roots of that research, the idea of a Pedagogy of the Land and a Curriculum of Place.
2021-01-1627 minOn Education Matters with Nicholas Ng-A-FookAcademicky Stuff ft. Nicholas Ng-A-FookDr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. He joins us this morning to talk about his research interests, trends in teacher education his voicEd Radio podcast, Fookn Conversations
2021-01-0928 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffT. Mayheart DardarIn Episode 19 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews T. Mayheart Dardar an Elder, grandfather, father, husband, son of a trawler, marine mechanic, student of martial arts, teacher, and citizen of the United Houma Nation. During their conversation, T. Mayheart Dardar shares his perspectives as a public intellectual, historian, poet, former politician, and writer in relation to the educational, historical, and political settler contexts of Louisiana. They discuss some of the following concepts: COVID-19, love of reading, oil and gas industry, land erosion and coastal restoration, the hurricane season, Houma women leaders, Federal recognition, troubling Eurocentric academic anthropological and historical perspectives, questioning the value...
2020-12-1049 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Awad IbrahimIn Episode 18 Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Awad Ibrahim, an internationally renowned Professor at the University of Ottawa. During their conversation, Dr. Ibrahim shares his perspectives as a curriculum theorist in relation to the economy of hospitality and COVID-19. They discuss some of the following concepts: being a new dad, privileges of being a universal subject, unconditional hospitality, Black popular culture, what might matter to youth, the explicit, hidden, and null curriculum, schooling versus education, ignorant schoolmaster, Hip-Hop as poetic social, historical, and political theorizing, African immigrant youth translating and negotiating becoming Black in Canada, rhizomatic multinational and multilingual excesses of...
2020-11-221h 02
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Sam RochaIn Episode 17, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Samuel D. Rocha, a philosopher and curriculum theorist at University of British Columbia. During their conversation, Dr. Rocha shares his perspectives as a phenomenologist, musician, artist, and Mexican-American in relation to the 2020 United States election and The Syllabus as Curriculum. They discuss some of the following concepts: experiencing and crossing intellectual and material borders, folk phenomenology, reductions of time and memory, “art precedes metaphysics” and the “offering,” playing jazz, hegemonic presence of social sciences in Faculties of Education, a non-Apology of the humanities, posthumanism and post-qualitative
2020-11-051h 09
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Boni WozolekIn Episode 16, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Boni Wozolek, an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State University, Abington College. During their conversation, Dr. Wozolek shares her perspectives as a queer woman of colour in relation to the current 2020 Pandemic, Queer Battle Fatigue, and School-to-Coffin Pipeline. They discuss some of the following concepts: working and mothering as an academic, negotiating capitals of shame, 2020 Presidential Debate, hidden curriculum of human and non-human intra-actions of violence, living a soundscape curriculum, pedagogy and research as quantum entanglements, an ethics of collecting sounds, policing bodies, gender, sexuality, racisms, the sounds of LGBTQ2 students breaking, homophobia...
2020-10-091h 06
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Keri CheechooIn this fifteenth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Keri Cheechoo, an Assistant Professor specializing in Indigenous Education at the University of Ottawa. During their conversation, Dr. Cheechoo shares her perspectives as an Iskwew, (Cree woman), daughter, mom, kookum, auntie, cousin, poet, and teacher from Long Lake #58 First Nation in relation to living in harmony. They discuss some of the following concepts: grandparenting, living as ceremony, dreaming of ancestral medicines, agency, regulating and sterilizing Indigenous women’s bodies, legacies of the Indian Residential Schooling system, Orange Shirt Day, relearning intergenerational relations, land acknowledgments, treaties, poetic inquiry, art, Pimatisiwin, a Nisgaa research me...
2020-09-291h 04
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Adrian DowneyIn this fourteenth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Adrian Downey, an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University. During their conversation, Dr. Downey shares his speculations as a Mi'kmaw curriculum theorist and posthumanist scholar in relation to the current 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss some of the following concepts: writing during and within the COVID-19 Atlantic bubble, distinctions between the necropolitical, zoepolitical and biopolitical, critical feminist posthumanism, Indigenous curriculum theorizing, scholars, and scholarship, affect, compost, settler colonialism, dangers of advanced capitalism and wet markets, ecological education, literacies of the land, attending relationally as humans to becoming-with waste, the more-than-human, non-human...
2020-09-0956 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Nicholas Ng-A-FookIn this thirteenth episode, Dr. Dwayne Donald interviews Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, a Professor of Curriculum Studies at the University of Ottawa. During their conversation, Dr. Ng-A-Fook shares his perspectives as a curriculum theorist in relation to the 2020 Pandemic. They discuss some of the following concepts: online and distance learning, teacher agility, flexibility, care, and professionalism, currere, experimenting with a podcasting curriculum, the international field of curriculum studies, human migrations, living in rural and urban communities in Canada and the United States, life history research, unlearning, learning, and serving with the United Houma Nation, oral history research, racialized segregations, restorying settler...
2020-07-0557 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. William PinarIn this twelfth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. William F. Pinar, Tetsuo T. Aoki Professor at the University of British Columbia. During their conversation, Dr. Pinar shares his perspectives as a curriculum theorist and lived experiences in relation to the 2020 Pandemic and Anti-Black Racism Protests in the United States. He discusses some of the following concepts: systemic inequities, different temporal dimensions of currere, curriculum policy reform and reorganization, populist movements, instrumentalism, existential philosophy, cautionary notes on the use of technology, social media, and news feeds, reactivation, reconstruction, Black feminist autobiographical research, allegories of an American South, Weimar Republic, and Harlem...
2020-06-0854 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Kiera Brant-BirioukovIn this eleventh episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Kiera (Kaia’tano:ron) Brant-Birioukov, a Haudenosaunee doctoral candidate studying at the University of British Columbia. During their conversation, Kiera shares her perspectives as an Onkwehón:we curriculum scholar in relation to the 2020 Pandemic. They discuss some of the following concepts: seasonal knowledge, renewal, a returning to Elders’ teachings, land, prophecies, educational estrangement, ethical relational spaces, transformational pops, whose water are we standing on, Haudenosaunee and Kanenstóhare theories, curriculum studies, homecoming, being an uninvited guest, spirit and ceremony in education, a post-TRC educational landscape, Indigenous autobiography, a corn soup research methodology, and so...
2020-06-0158 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Rita IrwinIn this tenth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Irwin, former Associate Dean of Teacher Education at the University of British Columbia. During their conversation, Dr. Irwin shares her perspectives as an a/rtist, r/esearcher, t/eacher, and writer in the “Wake” of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She discusses some of the following concepts: slow scholarship, walking as an embodiment “being” and “becoming” in the world beyond the ineffable, gender issues, ongoing evolution of a/r/tography, existential potentials, renderings of living artistic inquiries, practices, processes, and concepts as methods, new materialism, image-making with graduate students, intravention versus intervention, teaching Grade 6, limits of re...
2020-05-2158 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Timothy StanleyIn this ninth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Timothy J. Stanley, former Interim Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies @uOttawa. During their conversation, Dr. Stanley shares his perspectives as a historian about the invisibility of everyday racisms in Canada. He discusses some of the following concepts: the rise of anti-Chinese racisms, the tragic death of Colten Boushie, the grammar of settler colonial racializations, racisms, and organized exclusions, the genealogy of Canadian settler property rights, removing monuments, the genealogical privileging certain inclusions and exclusions, living in Montreal as a mixed race youth, banning public expressions of faith in...
2020-05-1753 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Theodore ChristouIn this eighth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Theodore Christou, Associate Dean at the Queen’s University. During their conversation, Dr. Christou shares his perspectives as a philosopher, historian, and humanist in relation to the 2020 Pandemic. He discusses some of the following concepts: traditional and progressive education, homelessness, philosophers, empathy, collective public security, living toward democracy, an inadequate social system for Elders, pivoting, limits of 21st Century learning, mental testing, social efficiency, streaming, a fortifying curriculum, studying characters of the humanities and changes within Ontario public schooling, the Great Depression, city states, travel, hybrid identities, legacies of settler colonialism and it...
2020-05-151h 05
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Jennifer TupperIn this seventh episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Jennifer Tupper, Dean at the University of Alberta Faculty Education on Treaty 6. During their conversation, Dr. Tupper shares her perspectives on responding as an educational leader to systemic economic, educational, health crises as a community. She discusses some of the following concepts: living transitions as an educational leader, treaty ethics, education, and relations, ethical relationality, disrupting a settler imaginary, White settler historical consciousness, life writing process, family stories, teacher education, social studies education, collaborating with Elders and teachers, encountering one’s privilege as a white settler educator, citizenship education, restorying to be un...
2020-05-0555 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Cathryn van KesselIn this sixth episode, Dr. Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Cathryn van Kessel, also known as @DrEvilAcademic in relation to her work at the University of Alberta. During their conversation, Dr. van Kessel shares her perspectives on terror management theory (TMT) in relation to the politics of coping with existential threat during a pandemic. She discusses some of the following concepts: love of history, living in Alberta, our mortality, encountering worldviews, fetishizing fear, genocide, assimilation, derogation, annihilation, tolerance, DJ-ing interdisciplinary studies, existential antiracist theory, ideas on evil and death, species humility, Ernest Becker, Alain Badiou, Hannah Arendt, being a weird academic, feeling...
2020-04-2859 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Vidya ShahIn this fourth episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Vidya Shah, an Assistant Professor at York University committed to equity and justice. During their conversation, Dr. Shah shares her perspectives on leadership and systemic inequities in relation to our lived experiences with the COVID-19 Pandemic. She addresses some of the following concepts: educational leadership, settler colonialism, disproportionate racialized impacts of systemic inequities during a global crisis, the importance of collecting identity-based data, invisiblizing whiteness, intersecting impacts of racializations, access, opportunity gaps, questioning privilege, social justice, critical pedagogy, equity empires, identity-based data, Socially Engaged Buddhism, attachment, dis-identification, learning versus schooling, sustaining community...
2020-04-2256 min
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Hongyu WangIn this third episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Hongyu Wang, a curriculum scholar at Oklahoma State University. In 2019, she was the recipient of the OSU-Tulsa President’s Outstanding Teaching Award. During their conversation, Dr. Wang shares her perspectives on nonviolence education in relation to our current lived experiences. She addresses some of the following concepts: systemic inequities, neoliberal drive to compete, cross-cultural journeys in China and the United States, life history research, currere, teaching nonviolence education as a positive life force, interconnectedness, interdependence, Carl Jung’s archetypes, collective consciousness, and shadow work, psychic integration, personhood, poststructuralism, relationality, and so much more
2020-04-201h 01
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Lindsay GibsonIn this second episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Lindsay Gibson, an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. Prior to his work in higher education, he taught secondary school history and social studies within the Kelowna public schooling system for twelve years. During their conversation, Lindsay shares his perspectives on what we might learn from the discipline of history education in relation to the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19. He addresses some of the following concepts: trauma, equity, historical thinking, historical consciousness, virtual reality, construction of historical representations, teaching ethical judgement, historical harms, and Twitter curation.
2020-04-061h 05
Fookn Conversation - Talking About “Academicky” StuffDr. Dwayne DonaldIn this first episode, Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Dwayne Donald who is a descendent of the Papachase Cree. Dwayne works as an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. During their conversation, Dwayne shares his perspectives on the current material, political, and spiritual contexts of living in social isolation and how it might provide an opportunity for us to rethink what it might mean to live well as human beings. He addresses some of the following concepts: nehiyaw concepts of 4, balance, unlearning, ethical relationality, treaty education, and serving as an oskâpêwis (an Elder’s
2020-03-281h 02