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Associate Faculty Community Initiative:
The Metissage Approach as Professional Development
WHEN: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:00-4:30 pm PST / 6:00-7:30 pm EST
(Online)
This workshop will kickstart the collaborative development of an Associate Faculty Community Initiative.
The workshop will:
- add Metissage to your toolkit as a heutagogical approach to teaching and other work
- initiate a joint project defined by the Metissage outcomes
- create meaningful connection among associate faculty
A Peek at the Larger Project
The main objectives of this Associate Faculty Community Initiative are to create opportunities for meaningful connection among associate faculty along with professional opportunities.
These opportunities could take the form of, for example, a book, a journal edition, or some other form of collective output. Each project will be organized around a theme; the theme will be negotiated with those that come forward. Different levels of participation – in terms of time commitment and forms of engagement – will be possible to accommodate different levels of interest.
The Initiative offers several tiers of engagement:
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Core initiative team: The core group of collaborators engaged in planning, developing, and supporting one or more collaborative project(s). This team would provide the organizational frame for the initiative as a whole and would be responsible for developing and integrating the other tiers of engagement.
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Project team participants: A group of interested associate faculty who would be regular participants to delve into the subject matter and investigations around a project theme and collectively produce the project output(s).
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Community circle: Opportunities for individual associate faculty to join project activities at any time to experience the collaboration and participate meaningfully at any given time. Various methodologies and formats might be used to facilitate their participation meaningfully in a way that would not require on-going commitment.
Heads Up
This workshop will be followed by a second session where we will operationalize the project(s):
* Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 3:00-4:30 pm PST / 6:00-7:30 pm EST
A further event invitation will be sent out for this second workshop.
More about Metissage
We will be using a Metissage methodology to stimulate our individual and collective thinking.
See: Narrative Métissage as an Innovative Engagement Practice (RRU Library link)
References:
Bishop, K., Etmanski, C., Page, M.B., Dominquez, B., & Heykoop, C., (2019). Narrative Metissage as an Innovative Engagement Practice. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community, Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning, 5(2), 1-34.
Bishop, K., & Etmanski, C. (2020). The what, why, and how of métissage. In D. E. Clover, S. Dzulkifli, H. Galderman, & K. Sanford (Eds.) A feminist adult educator guide to aesthetic, creative and disruptive strategies in museums and community (pp. 237–246). Victoria, Canada: An initiative of Gender Justice, Creative Pedagogies and Arts-Based Research, University of Victoria. https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/comarts/feminist-adult-educators-guide/
Etmanski, C., Weigler, W. & Wong Sneddon, G. (2013). Weaving tales of hope and challenge: Exploring diversity through narrative métissage. In D. E. Clover & K. Sanford (Eds.), Arts-based education, research and community cultural development in the contemporary university: International perspectives (pp. 123–134). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Please Join Us
This is an associate faculty-led proposal developed by an initial team of three associate faculty members – Maria Anderson, Rita Egizii, and Theresa Southam, with the support of Isabel Cordua-von Specht, manager of Faculty Affairs.
If you are an associate faculty member and are interested in finding out more, please register for the workshop below. Please also consider becoming part of the core team that co-creates this initiative.
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