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Curricular silences: Filling the gaps
How can educators prepare youth to become designers of local climate change adaptations? Curricular gaps on climate literacy are significant. Public demand and political will are required to address the curricular gaps. In provinces with conservative governments that are aligned … Continue reading
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.. Listening for Silences in Curricula
2 – Do curricula include adaptations to past climate change events? For more detail, follow this link: https://athabascau.academia.edu/IreneFriesenWolfstone or read my doctoral dissertation.
… Listening for Silences in Curricula
Do curricula include knowledges needed for learning to design local climate change adaptations? In a series of 6 posts, I explore this question by reporting on the findings of my curricular study using Listening for Silences research method. This method … Continue reading
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Listening for Silences in Curriculum
In my book chapter, “Re-storying Matricultures” (2024), I developed a new methodology for listening for silences in curricula. It builds on Carol Bacchi (1999) who developed a policy-analysis method for detecting who and what was excluded from policy, and then … Continue reading
ReStorying Matricultures
ReMembering Indigenous Matricultures in Canada (Excerpt 3) Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna) (1986) has long asserted the prevalence of matricultures as an “advanced social system” on Turtle Island (p. xiii). In my research into Indigenous matricultures in Canada, I privilege the … Continue reading
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ReStorying Matricultures
ReMembering Matricultures in North Africa Tanit, Ancestral Mother of North Africa, is a powerful, parthenogenetic force known as Mother of all the Gods. The name Ta-Nit was translated as ‘Land of Neith’ (Bernal, 1987, p. 51) and in pre-dynastic Egypt, … Continue reading
ReStorying Matricultures
Wolfstone, I. F. (2024). ReStorying matricultures. Book chapter in E. Abdou & T. Zervas (Eds.), Ancient and Indigenous wisdom traditions in the Americas: Towards more balanced and inclusive curricular representations and classroom practices. Studies in Curriculum Theory Series edited by … Continue reading
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Social Tipping Points
Global Tipping Points is a climate research project led by Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute. The Global Tipping Points Report was launched during COP28. This report expands our understanding about the interdependence of social systems … Continue reading
Doctor of Philosophy
Yesterday I completed my six-year learning journey with University of Alberta and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. I am proud to provide a link to my dissertation titled “Indigenous Conditions for Cultural Continuity: Designing Local Climate Change Adaptations … Continue reading
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Poem to Sedna
As sojourners, we are like shamans diving into an icy underworld to make right our relationship with the Mother. We plead with Her on behalf of our people, but she is angry that her people break taboos by taking more … Continue reading
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