From Pedagogies That Imprison Us Towards Liberation with guest speaker Dr.Clelia O.Rodriguez

Please join the Indigenous Teacher Education Program at Queen's University, Faculty of Education in welcoming Dr. Clelia O. Rodriguez.

About this Event

Dr. Clelia O. Rodríguez is a global scholar, speaker, mom and auntie, born and raised in El Salvador. She earned her MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Before holding a Human Rights Traveling Professorship where she taught in the United States, Nepal, Jordan, and Chile, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Ghana. Prior to teaching at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education about Settler Colonialism and Pedagogies of Liberation, she was a Gender Academic University Advisor in Bolivia, as part of a partnership between CECI and Global Affairs Canada. Recently, she has collaborated with at the University of Fort Hare teaching postgraduate workshops. She is the founder of SEEDS for Change, an educational international platform bringing together Black, Indigenous and People of Colour to create pedagogies of liberation. She is the author of Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain (Fernwood Publishing, 2018) and is currently working on her second book titled, The Politics of the Uterus. She is committed to Social Justice Education, Decolonizing Approaches to Learning, Critical Race and Cultural Theories, and Gender and Women’s Studies. Her work has been published in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, in the Journal of Popular Education, Critical Pedagogy and Militant Research in Chile, the Black Youth Project, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, Radical Teacher, Postcolonial Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, among others. Her forthcoming article “Fui, soy, seré: (Mal)nacida. (Mal)criada. (Mal)hablada. (Mal)educada. (Mal)aventurada” is forthcoming in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.

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