From head to heart: An arduous journey to love in teaching and learning (Learning to Teach week)

Where does love fit into our teaching and learning? Should there be room for love in our classrooms? Can love guide us to well-being as teachers and students? Can love help us take on inequities and systemic barriers affecting many of our students in their learning journeys? Drawing from her experience as an educator, mentor, researcher and filmmaker, Michelle will share a Métis perspective of holistic well-being, addressing the role of relationships, cultural safety and compassionate advocacy as well as the potential of love to nurture healthy and dynamic sites of learning.

Michelle Smith is a Red River Métis filmmaker, media artist and educator born and raised in St. James, Manitoba. She is a founding member of the First Peoples Initiative, Indigenous Education Council and Indigenous Community Table at Dawson College in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) where she teaches Cinema-Communications. She is also co-founder of the Intercollegiate Decolonizing Network (IDN). She has directed and produced numerous documentary films and interactive media. She uses diverse media and participatory strategies to explore issues around Indigenous identity and resurgence, self-determined education and intercultural experience. She is Principle Investigator for the First Peoples Post-secondary Storytelling Exchange (fppse.net) and coordinated the Journeys First Peoples Transition program at Dawson for four years. She is Vanier scholar and PhD candidate in education at McGill University, doing community-based research on the topic of Indigenous educational sovereignty.

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