Relational Walking Practice with Dr. Dwayne Donald

Dr. Dwayne Donald is a descendent of the amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills people) and the Papaschase Cree and works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. His work focuses on ways in which Indigenous wisdom traditions can expand and enhance coventional understandings of curriculum and pedagogy.

This year’s conference has been spread out over five half-days in order to allow participants some respite from the screen; some time to attend to other obligations, like carework; and some time to process and reflect. We hope that during the conference, you might therefore find time to get outside for the opportunity to move, to decompress--and to attend to the place from which you are joining this virtual gathering. To this end, we have asked Prof. Dwayne Donald to guide us with a prompt for an optional daily relational walking practice.

To read more of Dwayne’s work on walking as a practice of learning relationality, see his article “We Need a New Story: Walking and the wâhkôhtowin Imagination” in the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2021).

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