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TEDx Talk: Teaching Science with Compassion and Wonder
SSHRC Storytellers Video
My video, “Bringing Biology Back to Life,” is a finalist for this year’s SSHRC Storytellers competition.
I am grateful for SSHRC providing this forum for storying our research.
This project was deeply collaborative, and I express my gratitude to many folks for their help:
…Six Recent Publications
More recent publications on place-based learning, science education, poetic inquiry, social justice, field schools, and teacher education.
“GPS Ecocache: Connecting Learners to Experience and Place” with Jesse Jewell
Article in American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy
“The jaguar walk: Reflections from the Amazon Field School”
In Transformative Dialogues
KPU Arts Speaker Series
More details here:
https://www.kpu.ca/arts/speakerseries
More Presentations! 2019–2020
Design your own place-based, cross-disciplinary session (with Daniella Roze)
Classrooms to Communities: Connecting People, Place and Planet
October 25, 2019
UBC
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Discovery Day Biology Lab Tour (with Christine Takhar)
Surrey Professional Development Day
November 8, 2019
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Poetry Reading
White Rock & Surrey Writers’ Club
The Cecilia Lamont Literary Contest
7pm, November 20, 2020
White Rock Library
Poetry Circle
President’s Dream Colloquium event
November 29, 2019
W.A.C. Bennett Library Room 7100
Simon Fraser University
More info here
Where the Sidewalk Ends (with Michael Maser) – CANCELLED
President’s Dream Colloquium event
12-1:15pm (meet at Georgia & Denman bus stop, north-side)
December 4, 2019
Vancouver, BC
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Poetry Reading (for Landscape|Interrupted Gallery Opening by Bad/Good)
President’s Dream Colloquium event
Conduit Gallery: 165 East Hastings
December 5, 2019, 7-9pm
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Creative by nature: When art and science collide
KPU Arts Speaker Series
March 11, 2020, 1-2pm
Cedar Conference Center
Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC
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Healing nature: Forest bathing and the wisdom of trees
KPU-Science World Speaker Series
June 9, 2020 POSTPONED
Science World Vancouver
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Ecopoetics of the Amazon
My latest publication: Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response (Vernon Press, 2019).
My chapter is “Ecopoetics of the Amazon.”
Available at 24% discount (using code CFC15385544F on checkout): https://vernonpress.com/book/710
Ecology walk at Derby Reach
More details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/389145695255590/
My Presentations in 2019
Storytelling and creativity: In relation with nature
Gulf Island Professional Development Day
March 1, 2019
Salt Spring, BC
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Contemplating nature as teacher through mindfulness
Gulf Island Professional Development Day
March 1, 2019
Salt Spring, BC
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Arts-based teaching in the science (or any) classroom (with Nicole Tunbridge)
Teaching, Learning, Scholarship & Research Symposium
April 23-25, 2019
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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A day in the Amazon Field School (with Lucie Gagné, Farhad Dastur, Gabrielle D’Errico and Connell Green)
Teaching, Learning, Scholarship & Research Symposium
April 23-25, 2019
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Education and the land ethic (with David Chang)
Canadian Society for the Study of Education
June 1-5, 2019
UBC
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Twisted Poets Literary Salon celebrates Refugium: Poems for the Pacific (with other authors)
HOOD 29 (previously known as The Cottage Bistro)
4468 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
June 27, 2019
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Place, identity and ecology: Teaching with nature sculptures
InSEA World Congress
July 9–13, 2019
UBC
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Nature, creativity and wonder (multi-day workshop)
Naramata Centre
July 13-20, 2019
Naramata, BC
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Finse colloquium on Wild Pedagogies
August 25–30, 2019
Finse, Norway
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Songs of streams, rights of rivers
7th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry
October 3–5, 2019
Acadia University, Nova Scotia
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Wild Things exhibition!
For this exhibition, Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives, I was co-curator, responsible for scenario and concept design. I researched and wrote the informational signage and many other texts that populate the exhibition.
My Van City:
Museum of Vancouver Invites Urbanites to Reflect on the Environment
The Tyee:
The Angler: Remembering the Animals Among Us
Georgia Straight:
Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives