8:00 am - 8:45 am                            Breakfast & Networking

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8:45 am - 9:00 am                            Territorial Acknowledgement + Welcome: Dr. Hilda Freimuth, TNIL

 

9:00 am - 9:45 am                            Keynote Speaker: Dr Alys Avalos-Rivera, Simon Fraser University

Research and Practical Applications of Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Teaching Experiences, Challenges, and New

Directions

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9:45 am - 10:15 am                          Poster Sessions & Coffee Break

• Chinese International Student Engagement in Communities for Oral English; Lu Wang, TRU

• Exploring Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Formal Education; Leticia Kanywuiro, TRU

• Exploring Methods of Assessing and Evaluating Science Education; Bharti Tomar, TRU

• Promoting Socio-Economic Skills through Girl Child Education in Ghana: A Pathway to Empowerment; Ruth Nkrumah, TRU

• Enhancing Children's Literature: Sentiment Analysis for Improving Education Storybooks; John Penek, John Hopkins U.

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10:15 am - 12:00 pm                        Morning Sessions

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Session 1: Compassionate Pedagogy for Neurodiversity in Postsecondary Education; Saskia Stinson, TRU

Session 2: How to Indigenize Learning Spaces: A Useful Tool for Educators; Dr. Hilda Freimuth, TNIL

Session 3+4 (Panel Discussion): Curriculum Intertext: Locating Living Pedagogy in Five Place-based Curricular Moments;

Dr. Patricia Liu Baergen, Guillermo Benedit, Mara Barbra S. Nanaman, Mayanthi Bhagya Basnayake, Sarah Bingham-Hall, TRU

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12:00 pm - 12:45 pm                        LUNCH

 

 

​12:45 pm - 1:15 pm                          Guest Speaker: Dr Neil Leveridge, University of British Columbia

 

 

1:15 pm - 3:15 pm                            Afternoon Sessions I

 

Session 5: Decolonized Assessment and the ‘UN’ Quiz; Dr Christie Fraser, Thompson Rivers University

Session 6: Never META Role-play I Didn’t ‘Roll With’;Angelina Van Dyke, Simon Fraser University

Session 7: Stories of Empowered Alberta Teachers Enacting Responsibilities in Indigenous Education; Dr Sarah Meade, A BoE

Session 8: International Initiatives for Social Justice in Education: Unique Learning Spaces; Dr Hilda Freimuth, TNIL

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3:15 pm - 3:45 pm                            Poster Sessions & Coffee Break

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• Chinese International Student Engagement in Communities for Oral English; Lu Wang, Thompson Rivers University

• Exploring Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Formal Education; Leticia Kanywuiro, Thompson Rivers University

• Exploring Methods of Assessing and Evaluating Science Education; Bharti Tomar, Thompson Rivers University

• Promoting Socio-Economic Skills through Girl Child Education in Ghana: A Pathway to Empowerment; Ruth Nkrumah, TRU

• Enhancing Children's Literature: Sentiment Analysis for Improving Education Storybooks; John Penek, John Hopkins Uni.

 

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm                            Afternoon Sessions II

 

Session 9: Voices of Change: Feminist Approaches to Gender Inequality in India's STEM Education; Himanshi Prasha, TRU

Session 10: Enhancing Employability of International Graduate Master of Education Students in Canada through a Work-Integrated Learning Model; Niksha Khurana, Thompson Rivers University

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4:45 pm - 5:00 pm                            Conference Draw + Closing Comments

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