It’s Time to Fill Your Packsack!

A packsack is essential for carrying all your tools and resources every day. The canvas and leather trim version known as a packsack in earlier days is the one that we thought about in naming our new workshop series that is titled: Navigating an Indigenous Knowledge Environment Series.  

Imagine having everything that you need within your reach! In these packsack sessions, faculty will be provided with new ways to navigate the current landscape of Indigenous Studies in Canadian college classrooms. Faculty training will be starting as of November 8^th, with four new sessions offered at various times over four weeks (currently online only). These sessions will focus on learning new strategies and skills not only for teaching the Indigenous Learning Outcomes (ILO) but to support your classroom delivery with an acquired Indigenous Studies lens.

These new workshops are designed to help faculty develop their teaching practice so that familiarity and comfort replace reluctance and anxiety about teaching the ILO and Indigenous content. Faculty have expressed their discomfort in teaching and infusing Indigenous content into their courses so this new series addresses those concerns.

Please watch for the schedule! You can choose just one of the sessions or more than one if you wish. If you only have time for one, remember that these sessions will be offered again in the new year!

*Negahneewin Research Centre, with support from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), is helping to decolonize the College with the “Filling the Packsack” project.  One of the key objectives of this project is to develop strategies for improving faculty capacity to deliver ILO-content.