Dance Your Style in Teacher Education: An International Panel

In this episode, we learn from global perspectives on teacher education, the possibilities and challenges of bridging local contexts with global citizenship within Indigenous and intercultural education, and the power of transnational collaboration. Guest host Zayd Waghid (South Africa) invites sharing across continents from colleagues Angelina Weenie (Cree - Canada), Esther Kiaritha (Kenya), Patricia Houde (Mexico), Alexis Oviedo (Ecuador), and Karine Hindrix (Belgium).-----GUEST HOST:Zayd Waghid, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in South Africa. He is the South African National Research Foundation Chair (SARChI): Transformative Education, Social Justice and Innovation at CPUT. He is a South African National Research Foundation C-rated researcher, a recipient of the CHE-Heltasa National Teaching Excellence Award (Commendation) in 2019 and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Cornell University in 2024.SPEAKERS:Alexis Oviedo is a professor at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB) He coordinates the Public Policies for Education and the Mastery in Innovation of Social Sciences and Humanities teaching at the Department of Education. Oviedo researches and works in social pedagogy, curricular diversification, intercultural education, organizational behaviour, cultural studies and cultural management, educational policy and research methodologies in various Latin American countries.Angelina Weenie is Cree (nehiyaw) from Sweetgrass First Nation, Saskatchewan, and is the dean of the Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research, and Applied Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her research and teaching interests lie in Indigenous epistemology, culturally responsive pedagogy, approaches to Indigenous language reclamation, land-based pedagogy and research methods with Indigenous peoples. She has recently co-authored a book, Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy (2024).Karine Hindrix is a lecturer in Teacher Education at UC Leuven-Limburg in Belgium and a researcher within the UCLL Center of Expertise Education and Development.Patricia Marie Anne Houde is an associate professor at the Language Department of the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. She works in teacher education programs and has taught in French Immersion programs in Canada and English as a foreign language in Mexico. In 2018, she completed a PhD in Educational Studies in Language Acquisition at McGill University in Montreal. Her main research interest is in the area of reflective practice via collective accompaniment with EFL language teachers.Dr. Esther N. Kiaritha is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Strategic Leadership Development at Moi University. She is an educator, leadership trainer, researcher, and academic mentor with over 22 years of experience in higher education. She has also contributed significantly to university governance, TVET leadership, school management and community-based development initiatives.To learn more, extended bios and resources are available at oise.utoronto.ca/journeyspodcast.---Follow us at @journeys.pod on Instagram to receive updates!