Asian Canadian Perspectives in Education
Tue, Jun 07
|Online Event
Participate in one of the following three workshops ; engage in post-workshop affinity conversations; win one of nine amazing books given as draw prizes. Workshop 1: Awareness, Advocacy, Activism Workshop 2: Forum for Senior/ Secondary Educators Workshop 3: Parents: Proactive Actors in Education
Time & Location
Jun 07, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Online Event
About the event
Participate in one of the following three workshops ; engage in post-workshop affinity conversations; win one of nine amazing books given as draw prizes.
Workshop 1: Awareness, Advocacy, Activism
We argue that critical literacy, culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy, and historically responsive literacy encompass what we need to raise critical readers who read the word and the world. (Gay 2018 et al.) Join us to explore Asian Canadian Perspectives to facilitate advocacy for those who are “othered”, and to cultivate readers who will embrace activism. Target audience: elementary educators
Workshop 2: Forum for Senior/ Secondary Educators
As educators, we are learners who recognize that cultural expertise is diverse and lies in the lived experiences of students and their families. To understand what makes each student unique, celebrate who they are and the contributions Asian people have made to Canada, let us come together to incorporate Asian Canadian perspectives in teaching…