Exposing Intersections of Time and Labor With Preservice Social Studies Teachers in New Brunswick, Canada

• In Event: Complicating Notions of Justice

Abstract

What creative pedagogical approaches might be harnessed to encourage social critique and action in pre-service geography teacher education? By reflecting on an assignment in an Introduction to Teaching Geography (2019) class where pre-service teachers visually mapped a worker’s labour for a day on unceded and unsurrendered Wolastoqiyik territory (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada), we ask: what can we learn about labour, space, capitalism, and intersectionality (by visually mapping a worker’s day and analyzing their labour? We argue that by confronting the apolitical teaching of geography education through the example of a mapping labour assignment, we might attempt to disrupt the ways that white Canadian settler geographies permeate the existing curriculum and work to disrupt neoliberal assumptions about schooling, creativity, and work.

Authors

• Casey Megan Burkholder, University of New Brunswick

• Allen Chase, University of New Brunswick