Welcome to the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI)
The Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI) draws faculty and students together, in graduate programs, courses, lectures, workshops and other interactive venues, to address Educational issues or topics of common concern from inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.
CCFI seeks to drive intellectual and social innovation through the nurturance of transdisciplinary scholarship in Education. CCFI thus serves as both an active academic unit that provides graduate programs and courses, and in so doing, contributes to the development of knowledge advances across multiple fields of inquiry in Education, as well as an incubator space for the development of cross-faculty initiatives and collaborative inquiry.
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DEC 10
CCFI Winter Break/End of Term Party
At Rhizome Cafe 317 East Broadway, near Kingsway, between 7:00 and 9:45 pm
NOV 27
Bronwyn Davies: Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges Le.git.i.mate (first definition): conforming to established standards of usage... Read More
NOV 20
Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization Symposium Students of the CCFI 601/EDST 565 class Indigenous Knowledges and Education have created projects about Indigenous Knowledge for community and university practitioners.... Read More
"Playing Indians" at Green College: Listening as Transdisciplinarity
by Andrea Dancer, CCFI PhD student
At Green College this October, on a blustery rainy evening, scholars, writers, poets and students gathered around a roaring fire in Graham House’s lounge for an old-fashioned evening of listening to the “radio”. What they in fa ct were listening to was Andrea Dancer’s radio-documentary feature, a piece of arts-based research, into the German fascination with the Plains Indian imaginary. So, what are Plains Indians’ ways doing in the lives of these German and Central Europeans who have never met First Nations persons, let alone stepped foot onto the North American Plains?
The story comes to life every spring, when about five thousand Germans descend on a small town called Radebeul, just outside of Dresden in former Communist East Germany, to "play Indians" at the Karl May Festival.
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