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SUMMARY:Books to Build on Workshop - Honouring Indigenous Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, March 22 at 7:00pm for a workshop and 
 discussion about the Books to Build On: Indigneous Literatures for Learning 
 from the project team.\n\nInitiated by Drs. Aubrey Hanson and Erin Spring\, 
 Books to Build On has as its goal to help teachers build foundational 
 knowledge and competencies to integrate Indigenous knowledges and 
 perspectives into their teaching. It does so through a database that 
 provides information and lesson plans on more than 250 books\, poems\, 
 songs\, collections\, and websites by Indigenous creator from the Treaty 7 
 territory and across North America. In this talk\, the Books to Build on 
 team will walk us through the resource\, and the process of its 
 creation.\n\nDr. Aubrey Jean Hanson (she/her/hers) is a member of the 
 Métis Nation of Alberta\, Region 3 and an Associate Professor in Education 
 at the University of Calgary. Her research spans Indigenous literary 
 studies\, curriculum studies\, and Indigenous education. Dr. Erin Spring 
 (she/her/hers) is a scholar and educator of British descent now living and 
 working with/in Treaty 7. She grew up on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe 
 Territories and lived in many different places before moving to 
 Moh’kins’tsis (the Blackfoot name for Calgary. Aubrey and Erin are 
 co-leads on the Books to Build On project. Together they have led the team 
 through reviewing the B.Ed curriculum\, gathering Indigenous texts\, 
 building the online resource\, and sharing teaching and learning 
 possibilities with diverse community partners.\n\nAnja Dressler Araujo 
 (she/her/hers) is a Settler who was born in Manitoba\, grew up on Vancouver 
 Island and has resided in Calgary ever since. Her ancestors immigrated from 
 Europe. Anja acted as the Content Manager and later the Digital Content 
 Development Coordinator. First\, she worked on the mapping out the existing 
 Werklund curriculum and interviewing faculty. She then searched for 
 Indigenous literature to include in the database. Finally\, she coordinated 
 new teacher graduates from the Werklund School of Education in developing 
 resources and lesson plans using the Indigenous literatures. Anja is 
 currently a grade 4/5 teacher in a German bilingual program in 
 Calgary.\n\nMaureen Plante (she/her/hers) is an Iroquois Cree/Métis woman 
 who was born and raised in north of Edmonton. She is currently a second 
 year MSc. student in counselling psychology at the University of Calgary. 
 Her research interests are focused on Indigenous mental health\, 
 decolonization\, Indigenous pedagogy\, and anti-racism in the classroom. 
 Maureen completed her B.A. (honours) in psychology at MacEwan University in 
 Edmonton. She is a Research Assistant on the Books to Build On project 
 where she helps expand the project to add knowledge\, and resources as well 
 as editing existing information in the website. She enjoys going to the 
 gym\, hiking\, and walking her with her dog\, Daisy.\n\nJadyn Fischer-McNab 
 (she/her/hers) is a Cree woman who was born and raised in Calgary and 
 belongs to George Gordon's First Nation in Saskatchewan. Jadyn began with 
 the project by creating lesson plans for various Indigenous literature to 
 be included in the database. Now\, Jadyn is helping expand the project by 
 working with her other team members to add knowledge\, and resources as 
 well as editing existing information in the website. Jadyn is a University 
 of Calgary graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Kinesiology as well as a 
 Bachelor of Education degree with a specialization in Physical Education. 
 She teaches grade nine humanities and physical education in 
 Calgary.\n\nRachel Stubbs is an English PhD student at the University of 
 Calgary and is of Saulteaux/Swiss/English descent. Rachel received her 
 undergraduate degree in English and History at MacEwan University in 
 Edmonton and her Master’s degree in English at the University of British 
 Columbia Okanagan. Rachel is a new Research Assistant with Books to Build 
 On Project\, in which she sources and categorizes new materials. This 
 project coincides well with her own research\, which focuses on depictions 
 of Indigenous girlhood in literatures of Western Canada written by women 
 from 1890-1939. Rachel enjoys spending her down time hiking\, fishing\, 
 camping\, and hunting with her two dogs\, Widgeon and Cricket.\n\nThis 
 event is part of the collaboratively organized Honouring Indigenous Writers 
 on Wikipedia event\, co-organized with UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan. This 
 year features a schedule of author readings and workshops throughout the 
 month of March\, as well as asynchronous Wikipedia editing challenges to 
 increase awareness of Indigenous literature\, and improve the coverage of 
 Indigenous writers on Wikipedia.
ORGANIZER;CN="Carla Lewis":MAILTO:carla.lewis1@ucalgary.ca
CATEGORIES:Special Event
CONTACT;CN="Carla Lewis":MAILTO:carla.lewis1@ucalgary.ca
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