CGCER International Conference: Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education

Friday, November 1

Vision StatementThrough research, education and action, the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and

Research heightens consciousness and understanding of issues of global citizenship education in order to contribute to the collective development of societies that provide basic social

justice and human rights. In achieving this, the University of Alberta community of researchers, students and partners plays a critical role in harnessing and advancing this vision.

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Department of Educational Policy StudiesUniversity of Alberta

Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5

Centre Co-Directors

Program CoordinatorMelody Viczko

cgcer@ualberta.ca

Dr. Lynette Shultz lshultz@ualberta.ca

Dr. Ali A. Abdiaabdi@ualberta.ca

08:00- 08:45

Registration & Breakfast Room: ED N 2nd Floor & Atrium

08:45- 09:15

Welcome & Opening Address Opening Address from Dr. Lynette Shultz, CGCER Co-Director & Associate Professor in Educational Policy Studies

Welcome from Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson, Indigenous Peoples Education Coordinator & Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, Dr. Fern Snart, Dean, Faculty of Education, Dr. Jennifer Kelly, Department Chair,

Educational Policy Studies & Jan Buterman, EPSGSA President

Room: ED N 2-115

09:15-09:35

Poetry by Ahmed Knowmadic Ali Room: ED N 2-115

09:35- 10:45

Keynote Address: Hospicing Western Modernity in Global Citizenship Education Dr. Vanessa Oliviera Andreotti (University of Oulu)

Chair: Dr. Lynette Shultz Room: ED N 2-115

10:45- 11:15

BREAK Room: ED N 2nd Floor Atrium

11:15- 12:45

Session 1a: Possibilities for decolonization Room: ED N 2-145 Chair: Dania Wattar

1. The lurking fear: Narrative inquiry, Gothic literature and the Ontario curriculum’s grade 11 American history course

2. Danielle Lorenz (Alberta) 3. 4. Untying the knots: Decolonization

practices as presented by Marie Battiste and Linda Tuhiwai Smith Kyla Fisher (Alberta) A pilot study: the plurilingual learners and their teachers in crossfire Meilan Ehlert (Simon Fraser)

Decolonizing art-education Andrea Avila Sakar (Victoria)

Session 1b: Anti-colonial epistemes of citizenship Room: ED N 2-147 Chair: Sasha Wittes

1. Intercultural philosophy, global citizenship, and social/ environmental justice education Claudia Eppert & Tram Nguyen (Alberta)

3. Back to basics: Focus on local knowledges in understanding citizenship Daniela Nascimento-Tereshchuk, Mildred Masimira, Naureen Mumtaz & Jin Mi Kwon (Alberta) Decolonizing Canadian educational policies and practices: Comparing Ben Calf Robe Society and Wiingashk Secondary School Quetzala Carson (Alberta) Indigenous knowledges and the Battle River Cree warriors Rochelle Starr (University of Alberta)

Session 1c: Reforming global citizenship education Room: ED N 2-149 Chair: Shelane Jorgenson

1. A critical review of global citizenship education: Some tensions between the global North and South Michael Kariwo (Alberta) Of global citizens and others. A view on subjectifications in volunteering programs Kristina Kontzi (Leuphana University Lüneburg) A practical, values-based tool for decolonizing global citizenship education Jack Ross, Andrew Creed, Jane Ross (Association for Life-wide Living)

Evil and citizenship education Cathryn van Kessel & Kent den Heyer (Alberta)

12:45- 1:30

LUNCH BREAK (lunch provided)

Room: ED N 2nd Floor Atrium

1:30 – 3:00

Session 2a: Rethinking civic participation Room: ED N 2-145 Chair: Girmaw Akalu

1. Education and political wellbeing: Experiences of enfranchisement among Ethiopian immigrants in Edmonton Berhanu Demeke (Alberta) Reclaiming the citizen and renouncing citizenship in autobiography: A case study Wisam Abdul Jabbar (Alberta) Participation and the quest for democratic educational governance in Africa Musembi Nungu and Thashika Pillay (Alberta)

Teaching the commons: Paving the road to social justice Jason Carreiro (Simon Fraser)

Session 2b: Social inclusion and citizenship Room: ED N 2-147 Chair: Yesuf H. Abdela

1. The effectiveness of educational projects of inclusion in communities with high social vulnerability Francisco Roberto Ferreira dos Santos & Ildefonso Rodrigues Teixeira (Católica de Brasília) Understanding how Chinese students learn in Canadian classrooms Kylie Yang (Alberta) Decolonizing Alberta’s educational policies to make possible the integration of refugee youth learners Neda Asadi (Alberta)

Session 2c: Higher education & the complexities of global citizenship Room: ED N 2-149 Chair: Melody Viczko

1. A heuristic for examining ethical internationalization in higher education: Global citizenship, epistemic difference, and transnational literacy Michelle Nicholson, Karen Pashby & Vanessa Andreotti (Oulu) Reclaiming a relational model of risk management as ethical practice in the internationalization of higher education Derek Tannis (Alberta) Decolonizing the international classroom Kumari Beck (Simon Fraser) International economic sanctions, university life and citizenship education: The case of Iran Shadi Mehrabi (Alberta)

3:00 – 3:45

Poster Session and Community Group Organization Displays & Break Room: ED N 2nd Floor Atrium

See handout in registration package for presenters list

3:45 –5:15

Session 3a: Community Panel – Community engagement & citizenship Room: ED N 2-145 Chair: Shadi Mehrabi Edmonton Multicultural Coalition Rosslyn Zulla Changing Together Josephine Pallard HIV Edmonton Tsion Demeke

Session 3b: Narrative explorations of citizenship education Room: ED N 2-147 Chair: Marianne Larsen

1. Global education and the substitute teacher – Opportunities and challenges in K-12 classroom Jessica Scalzo (Alberta)

2. Navigating resistance: Narrative reflections on social justice education Sasha Wittes, Rae Ann Van Beers, Ali A. Abdi, Lynette Shultz (Alberta) Global citizenship education from across the Pacific: A narrative inquiry of transcultural teacher education in Japan Edward Howe (Utsunomiya) Foreign born Muslim students elementary school experiences in Alberta Afshan Amjad (Alberta)

Session 3c: Interrogating understandings of citizenship Room: ED N 2-149 Chair: Kumari Beck

1. Citizenship and sovereignty in shared communities: An intercultural dialogue on divergent paths to social justice Krista McFadyen (Alberta)

2. “Citizenship is a passport”: The experience and perception of belonging and citizenship among Somali youth in Edmonton Yesuf H. Abdela (Alberta)

3. A shabby sort of citizenship: Trans* Canadians and passport Jan Buterman (Alberta)

Accounting for all: From inclusivity to particularities Zahra Kasmali (Alberta)

CGCER International Conference: Decolonizing

Global Citizenship Education

Saturday, November 2

8:00– 8:45

Registration & Breakfast Room: ED South 1st floor Atrium

8:45 –10:15

Session 4a: Toward a decolonizing feminism Room: ED 158 Chair: Janice Wallace Setting the trap Lynette Shultz (Alberta) Unleashing the complexities Tania Kajner (Alberta) Playing the game Thashika Pillay (Alberta) Taking flight Evelyn Hamdon (Alberta)

Session 4b: Neoliberal globalization & educational policy Room: ED 165 Chair: Michael Kariwo

1. Globalization and educational change in Syria Dania Wattar (Alberta) Quality assurance in higher education: The Ethiopian experience Girmaw Akalu (Alberta) Impact of the OECD policies on education systems Chouaib El Bouhali (Alberta) Rethinking business models for 21st century higher education: A European view Jessica Lichy (IDRAC) & Rickard Enstroem (MacEwan)

Session 4c: Decolonizing scientific understandings of citizenship Room: ED 177 Chair: Edward Howe The contributions of MOODLE to the processes of the decoloniality of the being, knowing and knowledge production Lia Scholze & Renata Brandini Lima (Católica de Brasília) 21st century learners: Economic humanism and the marginalization of wisdom Vessela Balinska-Ourdeva (Alberta) Scientific literacy -- A tool for decolonizing global citizenship education Elizabeth Vergis (Alberta)

1. Use of information and communication technology in the process of inclusion in schools in Brazil Quilombola Francisco Roberto Ferreira dos Santos & Ildefonso Rodrigues Teixeira (Católica de Brasília)

10:15-10:35

BREAK Room: ED South 1st floor Atrium

10:35-12:05

Session 5a: Community Panel – Reimagining global education Room: ED 158 Chair: Chouaib El Bouhali Global Café Jasper Place High School Julia Dalman The Centre for Global Education Queen Elizabeth High School Terry Godwaldt Africa Centre Tesfaye Ayalew Global, environmental and

Session 5b: Decolonizing international partnerships Room: ED 165 Chair: Makere Stewart-Harawira

1. A complicated kindness? Rethinking global citizenship from an international development perspective Allyson Larkin (Western) Teacher professional development in Brazil: Colonization of teachers' voices Daniela Nascimento-Tereshchuk (Alberta)

2. (Un)conditional hospitality: Educating for global citizenship at home & abroad

Session 5c: Dislocating white privilege Room: ED 177 Chair: Derek Tannis Indigenist research methodology: Addressing the achievement gap within First Nations education Alethea Wallace (Alberta) Unsettling Canadian daycares – deconstructing multiple oppressions: Race and transnational labour Navjot Thind (Alberta) Whose knowledge is transmitted through public education in Africa? Morongwa Masemula (University of

Vision StatementThrough research, education and action, the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and

Research heightens consciousness and understanding of issues of global citizenship education in order to contribute to the collective development of societies that provide basic social

justice and human rights. In achieving this, the University of Alberta community of researchers, students and partners plays a critical role in harnessing and advancing this vision.

O!ce5-182 G Education North

Department of Educational Policy StudiesUniversity of Alberta

Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5

Centre Co-Directors

Program CoordinatorMelody Viczko

cgcer@ualberta.ca

Dr. Lynette Shultz lshultz@ualberta.ca

Dr. Ali A. Abdiaabdi@ualberta.ca

outdoor education council (GEOEC) Natasha Sarkar

Shelane Jorgenson (Alberta) Education for sustainable inequality? A postcolonial analysis of materials for development education in Germany Kristina Kontzi (glokal e.V)

South Africa) Decolonizing math education with history Michelle Hawks (Alberta)

12:05-1:00

LUNCH BREAK (lunch provided) Room: ED South 1st floor Atrium

1:00- 2:00

Keynote address: Facing Academic Minders, the Instruments of Institutional

Interference in Higher Education

Dr. Toni Samek (University of Alberta) Room: ED 129

Chair: Neda Asadi

2:05 – 3:35

Session 6a: Decolonizing practices of learning Room: ED 158 Chair: Berhanu Demeke

1. Disrupting the binary: International service learning and decolonization Geraldine Balzer (Saskatchewan)

2. Critical global citizenship and international service learning Marianne Larsen (Western) Reimaging service-learning: Beyond the problematic of a server-served dichotomy Judy Bruce & Vanessa Andreotti (Oulu)

Closing the gap and broadening the perspective: Culturally responsive pedagogy in elementary general music in communities of colour Kathy Robinson (Alberta)

Session 6b: Transformative pedagogies Room: ED 165 Chair: Evelyn Hamdon Effective communication from a learner’s perspective Sung Kyung Ahn (Alberta) Applications of feminist and anti-racist counselling in the education system Maria Calleja (OISE)

Solidarity movements and decolonization: Exploring a pedagogical process Saima Butt, Donna Chovanec, Naomi Gordan, Misty Underwood, & Ruby Smith Diaz (Alberta) Changing the terms of the conversation: Collaborative performance art and installation Lynn Sutankayo & Leslie Robinson (Alberta)

Session 6c: Theorizing concepts of citizenship Room: ED 177 Chair: Tolga Karabulut

2. The construction of full citizenship in a vision of the Brazilian digital inclusion in education Francisco Roberto Ferreira dos Santos & Ildefonso Rodrigues Teixeira (Católica de Brasília) Global citizenship in light of human extinction Jan Jagodzinski (Alberta)

The particularity and universality of the concepts of citizenship and citizenship education Tan Chuanbao (Beijing Normal)

Indigenous peoples as global citizens: A decolonizing construct or post-imperial hegemony? Makere Stewart-Harawira (Alberta)

3:35-3:50

BREAK Room: ED South 1st floor Atrium

3:50- 4:10

Poetry by Ahmed Knowmadic Ali Room: ED 129

4:10-4:50 Closing Address: Decolonizing global citizenship education: Reconstructing the conceptual and

theoretical platforms

Dr. Ali A. Abdi, Co-Director of CGCER & Professor in Educational Policy Studies Room: ED 129

Chair: Musembi Nungu

We would like to thank the following organizations for their support for this conference: Dr. Jennifer Kelly & the Department of Educational Policy Studies

The Faculty of Education (University of Alberta) The Educational Policy Studies Graduate Student Association (EPSGSA)

The University of Alberta Bookstore Earth’s General Store

Burrito Libre Boston Pizza Spruce Grove

CGCER Conference Organizing Committee Thashika Pillay (Conference Coordinator) Melody Viczko Rae Ann Van Beers Sasha Wittes Neda Asadi Chouaib El Bouhali Shadi Mehrabi Derek Tannis Dania Wattar Review & Program Committee Girmaw Akalu Berhanu Demeke Tania Kajner Michael Kariwo Musembi Nungu David Schmaus Conference Volunteers Yesuf Abdela Macarena Alamo Auralia Brooke Joe Corrigan Naomi Gordon Michelle Hawks Stella Ebi Johnson Shelane Jorgenson Kyla Fisher Ananda Majumdar Ary Masalam Tram Nguyen Nonye Nwachukwu Lydia Pungur Navjot Thind Elizabeth Vergis CGCER Co-Directors & Conference Faculty Advisors Ali A. Abdi Lynette Shultz Photographer Danielle Lorenz

SEMINAR SERIES 2009/2010"Whose social justice is it, anyway?"

Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZDr. Ali A. Abdi (Moderator), University of Alberta

April 8, 2 – 4 pm, ED N 7-152Dr. Vanessa Andreotti has extensive international experience in the areas of global citizenship,

development, multicultural and intercultural education, working with schools,NGOs, professional organizations, teacher networks and academic partners.

In 2005, she joined the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ)at the School of Politics and International Relations at Nottingham University, asa research fellow and education and outreach coordinator. Additionally, she wasa visiting lecturer at the School of Educational Studies and Human Developmentat the University of Canterbury. Later, she joined the School of Maori, Social and

Cultural Studies in January 2008. Her !elds of research include approaches tomulticulturalism; development education; dialogue and inquiry in education;

di"erence and diversity in education; globalization and global citizenship; andpostcolonial theory.

Dr. Ali A. Abdi, co-Director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Education andResearch (CGCER), is professor of education and international development, and

social and cultural foundations of education in the Educational Policy StudiesDepartment. He was President, Comparative and International Education Society

of Canada (CIESC), and is the founding editor of the online publication, Journalof Contemporary Issues in Education, and co-founding editor of the new journal,

Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry. His research areas include comparative andinternational education; citizenship and development education; cultural studies

in education; African philosophies of education; and postcolonial studies in education.

Refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!O!ce

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University of AlbertaEdmonton, AB T6G 2G5Phone: 780-492-4879

Global citizenship education scholarship critically deals with all aspects of social, educational, cultural, political and economic development of societies. With a vision to create a comprehensive understanding of the research and dissemination of global citizenship education project that enhances and sustains basic citizenship rights for all people, the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) is an exciting initiative in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. The concept of global citizenship suggests the development of global citizens who have a set of knowledges, skills and attitudes that make it possible for them to be actively involved in local, national and global institutions and systems that directly or indirectly affect their lives. Vision Statement Through research, education and action, the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research heightens consciousness and understanding of issues of global citizenship education in order to contribute to the collective development of societies that provide basic social justice and human rights. In achieving this, the University of Alberta community of researchers, students and partners plays a critical role in harnessing and advancing this vision.

CGCER Office 5-182 G Education North

Department of Educational Policy Studies University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5 Phone: 780-492-4879

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