Conference 2021
Social Studies:
Now, more than ever!
Now, more than ever!
October Conference 2021
There has never been a clearer need for Social Studies education, skills, and practices!
2021 Conference Schedule
8:45 am - 9:00 am — Virtual Arrival
9:00 am - 9:45 am — Welcome & Keynote Address Dr. Marie Battiste - "Decolonizing Education"
9:45 am - 10:15 am — Q&A with Dr. Battiste (optional)
10:15 am - 11:10 am — Workshops in Session A
11:10 am - 11:40 am — Break with Virtual Exhibit Hall visits
11:40 am - 12:15 pm — Lunch Break
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm — Plenary: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Not the next buzzword Laura Leslie
12:45 pm - 1:40 pm — Workshops in Session B
1:40 pm - 1:50 pm — Break
1:50 pm - 2:45 pm — Workshops in Session C
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm — Feedback and Farewell (Receipts will be sent via email)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm — Annual General Meeting - Social Studies Teachers Association of Nova Scotia
Friday, October 22, 2021.
Registration is closed for this event. Please check out our outcoming October conference in 2022.
Dr. Marie Battiste
Marie Battiste is a Mi’kmaw educator from the Potlotek (pronounced Bot-Loh-Deck) First Nation in Unama’ki and Professor Emerita at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow, advancing scholarship in theme of Power and Knowledge. She is an honorary Officer of the Order of Canada, an elected Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada in 2014, and holds the Distinguished Academic Award in 2013 from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), and an Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Award (now Indspire) in 2008. Holding a master’s of education from Harvard University and a doctorate in education from Stanford University, she has been honoured with four additional honorary doctorate degrees (St. Mary’s University, University of Maine at Farmington, Thompson Rivers University and University of Ottawa).
Her book publications include Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit (Purich Press, 2013) and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge (Purich Press/UBC Press, 2000), which won a Saskatchewan Book Award. She has edited several collections, Visioning Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy (2016), Living Treaties: Narrating Mi’kmaw Treaty Relations(2016), Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (2000), and First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds(1995), and several journals, including Canadian Journal of Native Education, Canadian Race Relations Directions, and the most recent 2021 The Engaged Scholar for Community Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning.