Papers by Rita Forte
Published Articles by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook by Rita Forte
International Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Environmental Education: A Reader, 2017
In recent years, reconciliation has become a central concept in renewing relationships between In... more In recent years, reconciliation has become a central concept in renewing relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Canada. In this chapter, we apply this concept to environmental education (EE), exploring principles through which EE scholars, both in Canada and internationally, can take up EE as a praxis of environmental reconciliation. In particular, we analyze the literature on ecojustice education, discussing both the possibilities and the limitations of this framework in relation to Indigenous education. We then present qualitative findings from teacher candidates (TCs) completing a voluntary practicum in an Indigenous community and discuss how the findings indicate the shortcomings of current teacher education practices in relation to EE and the need for an environmental reconciliation-oriented approach. Finally, we provide specific recommendations for EE scholars elsewhere who wish to take up EE as a praxis of environmental reconciliation.
Educational researchers and policy-makers are now expected by funding agencies and their institut... more Educational researchers and policy-makers are now expected by funding agencies and their institutions to innovate the multidirectional ways in which our production of knowledge can impact the classrooms of teachers (practitioners), while also integrating their experiential knowledge into the landscape of our research. In this article, we draw on the curriculum implementation literature to complicate our understandings of knowledge mobilization (KMb). Policy implementation, we suggest, can be understood as one specific type of KMb. We draw on different models for KMb and curriculum implementation and develop a relational model for KMb. Utilizing our model we critically reflect on the specific successes and challenges encountered while establishing, building, and sustaining the capacity of our KMb network. Our findings suggest that faculties of education are uniquely positioned to act as secondary brokers for the implementation of policy reforms within public education systems. To this end, we discuss how a relational KMb network is a “best practice” for establishing and sustaining partnerships among policy makers, educational researchers, and public school practitioners.
Book Chapters by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook by Rita Forte
Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education, 2019
This chapter draws upon the concepts of cosmopolitanism, affect, and art, to study our precarious... more This chapter draws upon the concepts of cosmopolitanism, affect, and art, to study our precarious relations with the commons. The connection between politics, environment, and art can be facilitated, we suggest, through a cosmopolitan worldview that is produced through aesthetics—or what we might call a cosmopolitan imaginary. In this chapter, we also provide a short historical overview of the oil sands in Alberta. Our situated historical narrative partially traces conversions of Settler farming and ranching economies to the boom and bust fluctuations of the black bold industry. Using the oil sands narrative as a backdrop, the next section draws on these concepts to illustrate an analysis of five of Louis Helbig’s aesthetic representation of the oil sands. These images call on us us to critically interpret the different implications and connotations of enclosing the commons beyond a beautiful destruction. In the final section we return to the Indigenous communities such as Standing Rock, the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations, and the Mikisew Cree First Nation that have fought the development of the pipelines and the massive infrastructure across/through their lands. By troubling the concept of the commons in relation to Indigenous communities and traditional territories, we combine the reality of sacred lands, the art, and the impenetrable relationship of politics and energy.
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Papers by Rita Forte
Published Articles by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook by Rita Forte
Book Chapters by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook by Rita Forte