This week, the Voices from the Margins of a Crisis series features a podcast episode with Jeff Preston. Jeff is first joined by Michalia & Taylor Lee Walls from the Disability Studies program at King’s University College to talk about social isolation during the pandemic. After, Jeff chats with Toronto-based comedian Desiree Walsh, who considers some of the unexpected benefits for wheelchair users of a socially distanced life. Listen now.
In this video, Amanda Kennedy speaks about the ramifications of colonization, trauma, and mental health in education, and the importance of land-based learning. This talk was recorded at the City Symposium on Quality Education.
Amanda is a social innovator and the founder of the Kuwahs^nahawi Social Enterprise.
“COVID-19 has put a bright light on in the inequities in public education.” In this video, Rick Pardo (former Coordinator for the Culture of Innovation for the Thames Valley District School Board) speaks about the need for innovation and agility in the public education system, especially in light of the pandemic. (Recorded at the City Symposium on Quality Education)
In the most recent addition to the Voices from the Margins of a Crisis series, Carolin Elizabeth George (Director, Community Health Institute of Research Bangalore Baptist Hospital) writes about the impacts and implications of COVID-19 pandemic for the inhabitants of the nation’s urban slums (and the contextual incoherence of typical public health guidelines).
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to misguide, mislead and misinform the world.” — Dobijoki Emanuela Bringi
In this video, Dobijoki presents on representation and equity in education (recorded at the City Symposium on Quality Education)
Dobijoki is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education at Western University with a focus on Indigenous African-Centred Education as Decolonization.
