English Studies as a Site for Healing: A Conversation about Place-Based and Indigenous Pedagogies in the English Classroom

Authors

• Jennifer Stone
• Heather Brook Adams
• Tayler Snoddy
• Samantha Mack
• Hailey Nicolet-Lloyd
• Arlo Nasruk Davis

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Description

This article summarizes a roundtable discussion from the 2016 Alaska Native Studies Conference among professors and students from two English Studies courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage: History of the English Language and History of Rhetoric. Jennifer and Heather discuss how the courses are traditionally taught and how they redesigned the courses to incorporate place-based and indigenous pedagogies. Then, Tayler, Samantha, Hailey, and Arlo--students from a range of backgrounds who took one or both of the classes--describe how the courses encouraged them to develop critical perspectives, build new knowledge through undergraduate research, and experience personal and professional transformations that led to advocacy. The dialogue provides a range of pedagogical perspectives and considers English Studies as a potential site for cultural and historical healing.

Publication Date

9-11-2017

Recommended Citation

Stone, Jennifer; Brook Adams, Heather; Snoddy, Tayler; Mack, Samantha; Nicolet-Lloyd, Hailey; and Nasruk Davis, Arlo, "English Studies as a Site for Healing: A Conversation about Place-Based and Indigenous Pedagogies in the English Classroom" (2017). Wellness & Healing: Indigenous Innovations & Alaska Native Research. 2.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_wellness_healing/2

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7857