New Ways of Teaching and Learning

With Cindy Blackstock, Kathleen Gallagher and Cornelia Remi

Hosted by Neil Wilson

In Person Youth

General Admission

Free

Wednesday

Nov , 2019

7:00pm

Eastern

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

355 Cooper, at O’Connor • Ottawa

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Cindy Blackstock Cornelia Rémi Kathleen Gallagher

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they can grow up in peace.

Kofi Annan

The Authors

Cindy Blackstock

A member of the Gitxsan First Nation, Cindy is honoured to serve as the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and a professor at McGill University’s School of Social Work. She has over 30 years of experience working in child welfare and Indigenous children’s rights and has published more than 75 articles on topics relating to reconciliation, Indigenous theory, First Nations child welfare and human rights. Cindy was honoured to work with First Nations colleagues on a successful human rights challenge to Canada’s inequitable provision of child and family services and failure to implement Jordan’s Principle. This hard-fought litigation has resulted in hundreds of thousands of services being provided to First Nations children, youth and families. She recently served on the Pan American Health Commission on Health Equity and Inequity and fundamentally believes that culturally-based equity is fundamental to meaningful reconciliation. Cindy is frequently sighted in the company of the Caring Society’s reconciliation Am-bear-rister, Spirit Bear, engaging children in meaningful actions to implement the TRC Calls to Action. fncaringsociety.com

Cornelia Rémi

Cornelia Rémi is a scholar of literature and loves adventures – random encounters that catapult her into new worlds and challenge her to explore words, ideas and stories. After previous appointments at LMU Munich and the University of Tübingen she currently serves as acting chair of German literature at the University of Würzburg. Her research focuses on early modern as well as 19th-century and contemporary texts, with book-length studies dedicated to religious poetry and to secrets in 19th-century fiction. In her spare time she promotes the joy of writing and reading by volunteering at LMU’s Writing Centre and for the Lübeck Book Pirates. Children’s books are a particular passion of hers. When she noticed her young nephews falling in love with wordless picturebooks teeming with characters, but couldn’t find any research on them, she jumped at the chance of studying these wimmelbooks herself. She is also responsible for compiling the most comprehensive online bibliography of Harry Potter research. www.coremi.de

Kathleen Gallagher

Kathleen Gallagher is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Previously, she held two Canada Research Chairs and in 2017 won the University of Toronto inaugural President’s Impact Award for research impact beyond the academy. In 2018 she won the David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and has garnered over 7 million dollars in SSHRC and other research funding. She has been a Salzburg Seminar Fellow and two of her books have won awards from the American Education Research Association. Her books include, Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the real (University of Toronto Press, 2014); The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times (University of Toronto Press, 2007) Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities (University of Toronto Press, 2000). Her edited collections include: The Methodological Dilemma Revisited: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research for a New Era (Routledge 2018); In Defence of Theatre: Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions. (with Barry Freeman, University of Toronto Press 2016); Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts (with Jonothan Neelands, Routledge 2013); The Methodological Dilemma: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research (Routledge, 2008); and How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars, and Advocates (with David Booth, University of Toronto Press, 2003). Dr. Gallagher has published many articles on theatre, youth, pedagogy, methodology and gender and travels widely giving international addresses and workshops for practitioners. Her research continues to focus on questions of youth civic engagement and artistic practice, and the pedagogical and methodological possibilities of theatre. See Also: Youth Find Hope for the Future Through Documentary Play Website: www.dramaresearch.ca YouTubeChannel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DramaResearchPortal FacebookGroup/Page: www.facebook.com/gallagherdramaresearch Twitter: www.twitter.com/dramaresearch