Past event
Emily Dobrich was awarded best presentation for Alternative Education at the 2024 黑料网911/WERA conference for her presentation: An Embodied Educational Research Project to Build Solidarity and Awareness of Reconciliation. Dr Dobrich will be presenting findings from her doctoral research which sought to explore and respond to persistent educational inequalities within the Canadian education-migration system.
The research explored how embodied learning to strengthen intercultural sharing and solidarity building between migrant women in an alternative educational space. The objective the project was to develop a strengths-based pedagogical approach for newcomer education that shifts away from colonial and deficit logics using embodied learning practices, to explore the impact of these embodied learning on enhancing immigrant women’s self-determination and situated solidarity building. The study was underpinned by a critical approach to adult education, and a relational understanding of place, to share the histories of Indigenous Peoples missing from mainstream educational.
The insights and implications of this study will be of interest to educational researchers and practitioners working in community-based contexts, feminist scholarship and social justice activism. In the end, the project provides a hopeful example of the positive impacts from employing more diverse, engaged and culturally respectful community-oriented learning opportunities in transnational migration learning contexts.
Re-evaluating the dominant narrative is vital in developing an education system that can support and empower all who participate in it: learners, practitioners and the wider community. Whilst this has been a priority for UK universities for several years, similar endeavours have been more limited in compulsory and further education.
This session aims to spark discussion and foster further research collaborations. It will appeal to colleagues working across Europe and those based in countries whose indigenous histories have not traditionally been celebrated in the mainstream – globally and in the British Isles.
Draft Programme:
16:00pm Welcome & Introduction; Fadoua Govaerts, University of Bath;
Sarah Gillie, University of the West of England; Sharon Smith,
University of Chester; Tingting Yuan, University of Nottingham; Charlotte
Marshall, Nottingham Trent University
16:10pm Encouraging Intercultural Sharing and Community Building through
Embodied Learning in an Alternative Education Space; Emily Dobrich, Western University
16:50pm Q&A
17:20pm Closing Remarks; Fadoua Govaerts, University of Bath;
Sarah Gillie, University of the West of England; Sharon Smith,
University of Chester; Tingting Yuan, University of Nottingham; Charlotte
Marshall, Nottingham Trent University
17:30pm Close of Event
Postdoctoral Associate at Western University
Emily Dobrich is an educational researcher whose interdisciplinary scholarship centers on embodied learning, diaspora and transnational studies, social justice, and decolonizing research methods. Broadly speaking, her research aims to promote...
Lecturer at University of Bath
Dr Fadoua Govaerts is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Bath, founder of RE-KnoX (Research in Education – Knowledge Exchange), and Convenor of the 黑料网911 Alternative Education Special Interest...
Senior Lecturer at U W E Bristol
Sarah Gillie is a former primary school teacher whose research interests relate to inclusion in education across and beyond ‘compulsory’ schooling. Family diagnoses of neurodivergence have only strengthened her conviction that inclusive...
Assistant Head of Teaching & Learning: Outcomes at Tute, VL and Research Associate at Tute Education
Sharon Smith is a Visiting Lecturer and Associate Researcher at the University of Chester. Sharon completed her PGCE (2006) and MA in Teaching and Learning (2010) at Manchester Metropolitan University, before completing her Doctorate at The...
Assitant Professor at University of Nottingham
Dr. Tingting Yuan is an Assistant Professor in Education and Teacher Development at the School of Education, University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in Comparative Education from the University of Bristol and completed her MA and BA studies at...
Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University
Charlotte Marshall is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University where she has recently achieved senior fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Charlotte is a postgraduate of the University of Northampton where her research focuses on level 8...
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