Design-in-the-Making: Collaboration, Inclusion, and Innovation Room for Teacher Candidates to Seek Educational Possibilities Within the Design Makings of Teacher Education Programs

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Centering Preservice Teachers' Humanity and Agency (Table 24)

Abstract

Permeating our Bachelor of Education program is the formative nature of professional knowledge. Chronicling and analyzing the cultivation of identities-in-the-making, embraces practice-based research as a habit of all educators. Positioned to continually discern how best to incite and further students’ learning, we find that such pedagogical reasoning invites the development of a language of practice that acts as a powerful medium for reconceptualizing education as individual/collective growth and well-being with found kinships to long-held beliefs and modes of being embodied within Indigenous wisdom traditions, and extending education’s reach in collaboration with all institutions, society, and beyond. The development of such transformative thinking within situations becomes our program design challenge and the topic of this presentation.

Authors

• Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

• Sabre Lynn Cherkowski, University of British Columbia

• Karen Ragoonaden, University of British Columbia

• John-Tyler Binfet, University of British Columbia