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English Studies as a Site for Healing: A Conversation about Place-Based and Indigenous Pedagogies in the English Classroom
Stone, Jennifer Brook Adams, Heather Snoddy, Tayler Mack, Samantha Nicolet-Lloyd, Hailey Nasruk Davis, Arlo
Stone, Jennifer
Brook Adams, Heather
Snoddy, Tayler
Mack, Samantha
Nicolet-Lloyd, Hailey
Nasruk Davis, Arlo
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Abstract
This article summarizes a roundtable discussion from the 2016 Alaska Native Studies Conference among professors and students from two English Studies courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage: History of the English Language and History of Rhetoric. Jennifer and Heather discuss how the courses are traditionally taught and how they redesigned the courses to incorporate place-based and indigenous pedagogies. Then, Tayler, Samantha, Hailey, and Arlo--students from a range of backgrounds who took one or both of the classes--describe how the courses encouraged them to develop critical perspectives, build new knowledge through undergraduate research, and experience personal and professional transformations that led to advocacy. The dialogue provides a range of pedagogical perspectives and considers English Studies as a potential site for cultural and historical healing.
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2017-09-11