Lori Huston (she/her)

As the new moon for me is all about expanding outside of any past confines, outside any boxes and giving life to new ideas, visions and projects, it is in that context I developed my goals. 

The theoretical framework of my graduating project includes A decolonizing research approach of Smith (2012), Battiste (2013), and Hodson (2013), which is sensitive and reflexive to Anishinaabe traditions. Indigenous educators "offer a fresh vantage point from which to analyze Eurocentric education and its pedagogies and bring Indigenous knowledges into the mainstream to establish a body of knowledge that can be drawn on for the common good" (Battiste, 2002, p. 5-6).

My Goals will align with seeing/viewing Indigenous Pedagogy as the force for change. At the intersection of the discourses on heart pedagogy related to place within the Indigenous context lays an unexplored concept which, adequately articulated and implemented, could have significant benefits for all. Essential to this work is highlighted by Wilson and Laing (2019) "We must incorporate knowledge mobilization and translation activities into our work that ensure that our research and our pedagogical practices are accessible and shared with communities" (p. 142).  I feel my goals and artifacts align with being inclusive, collaborative and accessible to Indigenous educators in communities through the rising Indigenous voices mentorship group.