“Unsettling Teacher Education: A Professional Curriculum Inquiry”
In his position as a first generation settler human being, husband, father, teacher educator, and dual Canadian and British Hakka-Guyanese-Irish-Scottish citizen living on the unceded and unsurended territories of the Algonquin nations, Dr. Ng-A-Fook will share some of his lived experiences in relation to systemic settler colonialism, anti-Indigenous racisms, and unsettling beneficiary narratives here in Canada. His research and public civic service calls on teacher educators to examine systemic anti-Indigenous racisms in relation to how we might begin to confront and disrupt settler Canadian colonialism, a historical settler consciousness, and reproducing such complicit worldviews within ourselves, teacher education and the public schooling system curricula.
Faculty Orientation
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
9:00 a.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook Bio
Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a Full Professor and Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is the former Director of the Teacher Education and Indigenous Teacher Education Programs at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. He is actively engaged in addressing the 94 Calls to Action put forth by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in partnership with local Indigenous and school board communities. His teaching and research are situated within the wider international field of curriculum studies and life writing research. Dr. Ng-A-Fook is currently part of several federally funded SSHRC partnership grants that seek to disrupt settler colonialism, systemic racisms, and inequities across the school and university curriculum. He is interested in collaborating with teacher educators, teachers, and communities who are committed as Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian citizens toward challenging ongoing systemic inequities. He is the host of the FooknConversation podcast which seeks to address these challenges with colleagues, community activists, artists, educational leaders, teachers, and politicians.