Event: Doctoral Colloquium: Elders reflect on their careers as instructors bringing Indigenous ways of knowing into higher education
Speaker: Francine Emmonds, PhD Candidate
Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
Time: 1:00–2:30 PM
Location: PCN 2012
Abstract:
My doctoral work centres around stories from Indigenous Elders who have instructed in higher education. Specifically, I ask how they have carried their cultural teachings into the academy. I want to know what this looked like, and what their experiences have been when they brought Indigenous perspectives of education, of teaching, and of learning, into places of higher learning.
The methodology for this research is based on a Cree conceptual framework of the maskikimiskanow – the medicine seeking journey around the sacred circle of life. A main aspect of this framework is minopimitisiwin – the good life that we seek as we journey around the sacred circle of life. This conceptual framework is important as it forms and informs the foundation of an Indigenous methodology based on Cree cultural teachings. I chose to speak of this to bring forward a bit of understanding about Indigenous perspectives of education, and of teaching and learning.
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