Program Wednesday July 18
All sessions and workshops held at Yukon College unless otherwise specified.
8:30 - 10:00
Conference Opening Remarks, Bob Jickling - Yukon Arts Centre
Plenary Speaker, Rishma Dunlop - Yukon Arts Centre
Title:
In Search of Tawny Grammar: Poetics, Landscape and Embodied Ways of Knowing
A "performative" paper that includes readings of poetry and
narrative prose to demonstrate arts-based research approaches to environmental
education and to epistemologies.Interdisciplinary perspectives include
feminist geography, ecology, literary and aesthetic theories, and theories
of embodiment.
10:00 - 10:30
Refreshment Break - Yukon College Cafeteria
10:30 - 12:00
Workshop A - Room T1023
Title:
The Wild Heart of Muskwa-Kechika
A narrative documentary video and Master's degree project from g. holub
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University). The program is a
collage of shared values, intimate experiences and community ties to the
wild and sensual landscape of northern British Columbia and the visionary
journey towards its protection.
Author: g. holub, York University, Canada holub@yorku.ca
Workshop B - Room C1530
Title:
There's a Campfire Singalong In My Head (And it's Getting Hot In Here!
)
Everyone has a story to tell... storytelling boosts self worth in kids
of all ages, nudges us to learn from our experiences as we continue to
grow, and offers an opportunity for significant meaning-making in our
lives. STORYTELLING THROUGH SONG, and especially via shared singing, builds
community, celebrates our quality of life and brings people closer together.
Now as global warming and climate change threaten to change those very
landscapes, storytelling and song offer tools for the meaning-making that
must proceed motivation to pro-active action.
Author: Peter Lenton, Puffin Productions, Canada peter@puffin.ca
Session
A - Room C1440
Title:
Women's Experience of Nature. Thesis Research Using the Methodology of
Phenomenology
Using the methodology of phenomenology, this research focused on the stories
told by women which described their experience of a three-day nature-related
workshop which incorporated spiritual aspects of nature through indigenous
teachings, rituals and ceremonies.
Author: Lucy O'Driscoll, Newfoundland, Canada lucyo@nfld.com
Title:
Towards a Phenomenology of Dwelling
What does it mean to dwell? By drawing on the thought of Heidegger, Heraclitus
and Ivan Illich-as well as my own experiences as both a cabin-dweller
and a city-dweller-I sketch out a theoretical and narrative framework
for thinking about the experience of dwelling.
Author: Lisa Guenther, Yukon College, Whitehorse, Canada lisagu@rocketmail.com
Title:
Place-Sensitive Culture: Naming, Narrativity and Decolonisation
I aim to identify some of the structural obstacles to developing a place-sensitive
culture in Australia and argue that it is a radical demand that challenges
the existing order very deeply and fundamentally at many levels. Aboriginal
narrative patterns of naming can help to show us possibilities for a richer
dialogical relationship which dominant conceptual schemes obscure.
Author: Val Plumwood, Australia vplumwood@braidwood.net.au
Session
B - Room T1022
Title:
Schools and Community Merge: A Model for Working Together on Local Sustainability
Projects
This presentation will tell the story of Learning for a Sustainable Future's
evolving Community Institutes -- two-day community gatherings which bring
teachers, high school students, business and community leaders together
to discuss local sustainability issues and develop subsequent action plans
to implement together.
Authors: MJ Barrett, Graduate Student, York University, Canada mjb@yorku.ca
Title:
Integrating Environmental Attitudes into All Aspects of the Curriculum
Our mission at Whycocomagh School and Environment Centre has been to fully
integrate environmental attitudes into all aspects of the curriculum.
Our journey into how best to do this has led us simultaneously in many
directions. Our determination to act locally and think globally has helped
us to undertake some important steps of action in our own community while
helping us to bridge connections with students and other with similar
interests on the international stage.
Author: Betsy
Jardine, Whycocomagh Education Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
Strand: EE/Northern Format: Presentation
betsyjardine@hotmail.com
Title:
Listening to the Landscape: The Vital Role of "Telling Stories"
in the Interpretive Planning Process
Heritage interpretation is about telling stories: stories that link both
residents and visitors to the local bioregion. But where do these stories
come from? Typically, the interpretive planning process has drawn upon
expert rather than folk knowledge. The interpretive planning framework
to be presented includes a landscape perspective where both the natural
and social aspects of the landscape are considered.
Authors: Lesley Curthoys, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada Lesley.Curthoys@lakeheadu.ca
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch - Yukon College Cafeteria
1:00 - 2:30
Workshop A - Room T1023
Title:
Touching The Earth-Experiencing the Land through Wilderness Travel
The only way to have a direct experience OF nature is to BE in nature.
Travelling through the wilderness offers a direct experience of the beauty,
simplicity and inherent rhythms of the natural world in a way that can
be transcendent. Wilderness tours offer this experience to people, particularly
those tours with an educational focus and a sensitivity to the intrinsic
power and value of the wilderness.
Author: Jill
Pangman, SILA SOJOURNS - Wilderness & Creative Journeys, Whitehorse,
Canada
jpangman@yknet.ca
Workshop B - Room C1530
Title:
Stewards and Storytellers: Tales of School Ground Change and the People
who Make it Happen
Evergreen will share the stories of students, parents and teachers who
have transformed their school grounds into outdoor classrooms, natural
habitats, and special, imaginative play spaces for children. Together
participants will share their own memories of play and nature in school
ground spaces, and explore strategies for making our contemporary school
grounds into landscapes of learning.
Author: Denise Philippe, Evergreen, BC, Canada dphilipp@evergreen.ca
Session A - Room C1440
Title:
Narrative in Environmental Education
This presentation will review the methodology of storytelling from the
perspective of Cree elder Raven Mackinaw's statement, "Settlers will
never know how to live in balance on Turtle Island until they understand
that wild er ness and storytelling are the same thing."
Author: Joe Sheridan, York University, Toronto, Canada sheridan@EDU.YorkU.CA
Title:
Oral Legacies: A Way to Enhance Environmental Literacy
This presentation focuses on the traditional ways of communication where
written word is seldom used to inform environmental concerns of low-literate
communities. Recommendations made to enhance environmental literacy in
these communities by a study conducted in Pakistan will be shared.
Author: Sabiha Daudi, Ohio State University Extension, USA daudi.2@osu.edu
Title: SpeyGrian: Sunshine on the Water
Inspired by experiences in the Yukon, SpeyGrian is an attempt to explore
aspects of Scottsh cultural heritage using a cross-disciplinary approach
in an outdoor setting. In this presentation poet, Gerry Cambridge and
educator, Joyce Gilbert combine music, slides and poetry to tell the story
of the unusual river journey which led to the formation of the SpeyGrian
Group in Scotland.
Authors: Joyce
Gilbert & Bonnie Maggio, SpeyGrian Group, Scotland
GilbertMoulin@aol.com BONNIE.MAGGIO@snh.gov.uk
Session
B - Room T1022
Title:
Around and About Stories: A Proposal for Environmental Education with
Small Children
The main objective of this paper is to present some conceptual foundations
and some general guidelines of a pedagogical proposal based on the use
of stories in the implementation of environmental education in pre-schools
and primary schools.
Author: Lidia Maximo, Universidade do Minho, Portugal lidia@iec.uminho.pt
Title:
Environmental Education in Russia
The presentation will discuss research conducted by Le Groupe d'Experts
Européens de l'Education à l'Environnement on northern Russia
environmental education issues.
Author: Michel Skapa, Groupe EEE, Czech Republic
2:30 - 3:00
Refreshment Break - Yukon College Cafeteria
3:00 - 4:30
Workshop A - Room T1023
Title:
Creating a Sense of Place-Naturally
Volunteer parents pilot a school nature club to offer elementary school
aged children connections to their community. Using the multi-dimensions
of community artists, elders, foresters, biologists and geographers-and
field excursions to local areas children participate in first hand, self-discoveries
of the natural wonders of their home.
Author: Cate McEwen, Northern Biomes Ltd, BC, Canada cmcewen@saltspring.com
Workshop
B - Room C1530
Title:
Globe Program
The Globe Program is an international experiential environmental monitoring
and science program with strong curriculum links to the new Pan Canadian
Science Curriculum. The program offers schools a full suite of computer
technologies and communication tools to collect, store and visualise local
environmental data.
In Canada's north GLOBE activities, communication tools and environmental
testing protocols are being used to study climate change and persistent
organic pollutants in the circumpolar world. GLOBE is about to take on
a national profile in Canada with the recent appointment of a National
Coordinator to support the project with regional training teams being
established in the western provinces and northern territories.
Author: Peter
Hardy, Globe Coordinator, Canada
Peter_hardy@mail.ycs.nt.ca or arctic_aussie@yahoo.com
Session
A - Room C1440
Title:
Mind-Body-Place and Privilege in Contemporary Environmental Thought
The concept "body-mind" is the symbol of a new wave of western
ecological rethinking of life and agency. I want to explore some questions
that can help us toward an engaged and critical understanding of "body-mind"
and of the rethinkings which it symbolizes. Through philosophical, narrative
and performative inquiry, I will look at some "histories" of
"body-mind,"some reasons for expanding the concept to "mind-body-place,"
and the potential of body-mind discourses for unwittingly contributing
to the continuing marginalization of the poor, the displaced, the abused,
the disabled, ... and-ironically-the more-than-human.
Author: Pamela
Courtenay Hall, University of British Columbia, Canada
pamela.courtenay-hall@ubc.ca
Title:
Weaving Cloths: Research Design in Contexts of Transformation
This paper is a reflexive account of designing an action research project
in Africa. In the first part of the paper I tell the story of the different
threads that I found, and spun, and dyed in different colours, in a complex,
uncertain educational context in transformation. The second part of the
paper tells the story of selecting and judiciously weaving these threads,
guided by processes of change, reflection and response. The third part
of the paper describes some of the features of the cloth that emerged
from the weaving of the threads. The creative enterprise involved in creating
textured cloths of many colours - in designing environmental education
research processes in transformation settings - is recounted in story.
Author: Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Rhodes University, South Africa h.lotz@ru.ac.za
Title:
The Sacred Red Road of the Isanti Dakota (Sioux): Keeping the Story Alive
Samuel Mniyo learned traditional religious knowledge from his Dakota elders.
Over 35 years he told me stories to write and give to the younger generation
to learn who they are, where they come from. I share stories, questions
and reflections.
Author: Dan Beveridge, University of Regina, Canada Dan.Beveridge@uregina.ca
4:30 - 7:30 pm
Break -- on
your own
7:30 - 9:00 pm
Dinner and entertainment at the Kwanlin Dun Potlatch House featuring:
- Remy Rodden, performer of "not for kids only" environmental songs
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Yukon slide presentation
- Louise
Profeit-Leblanc, First Nations story-teller
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