Re-Storying Education is a practice and everyday call to action. What actions of decolonization are you taking in your practice that are rebuilding the story of this place known as Canada today? From the TRC calls to action on education, educators are being asked to implement Indigenous history, Indigenous education, and Indigenous pedagogy into their practice, with mandatory Indigenous course requirements becoming more the norm in provinces. This calls us into a space to make changes within the western colonial education system. Connecting education as a wholistic practice and rebuilding connections with the land, the water ways, one another, communities, and the more than human is how we can start to Re-Story Education. As well as rebuilding a relationship to education and to Re-Story the stories that we have been told within the western colonial education system. The western colonial story has been the dominant story, and it has excluded so many other stories that have built this place known as Canada today. Re-Storying is including and making space for historically silenced voices in the education system so that we can build a complete story of this place we all live in, the whole shared history. Within this conversation Carolyn will give you tools to develop your critical lens as an educator, share her experiences within education as an Indigenous student and educator, to support how you can Re-Story Education in your classroom.
Award-winning author, speaker, and Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts brings warmth, brilliance, and an inspiring presence to every space she enters. A St̓át̓imc and Stó:lō woman from the Thevarge family of N’Quatqua and the Kelly family from Ch’iyáqtel, Carolyn is also a proud member of the Squamish Nation. Her debut book, Re-Storying Education, has been celebrated widely earning both the Nautilus Gold Award and Whistler Writers Festival Book of the Year. This April, she launches her first picture book, Tess’s Red Dress: Honouring Love & Family, which is already generating tremendous excitement across the publishing world.
Currently a faculty lecturer in UBC’s Teacher Education and NITEP programs, Carolyn draws on more than twenty years of experience as an educator and administrator in K–12 public schools, First Nation band schools, and post-secondary institutions. Her work lights a path toward decolonizing education and uplifting Indigenous brilliance, making her a deeply engaging and sought-after voice in the field.
