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Faculty of Education Graduate Students’ Conference 2017 Friday, February 3, 2017 9:30 – 11:00 Keynote by Julia Ostertag BL 2030 Teaching, Researching, and Tripping in the School Garden: Stories from an Arts-Based Research Metissage 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break BL 2030 11:15 - 12:15 Student Paper Presentations Session 1 BL 2034 Gemma Romano, Sustainable happiness: Exploring the impacts of sustainable living on individual happiness Melissa Twance, Lessons from land and water: Indigenous connections to the mazinaabikinigan at Agawa Rock Elizabeth Boileau, Understanding children’s relationship to insects 12:15 - 1:00 Lunch & Student Poster BL 2030 Anna Heaps, Return to learning in the classroom: Knowledge and experience of in-service, secondary teachers on mild traumatic brain injuries 1:00 - 2:00 Student Paper Presentations Session 2 BL 2034 Varainja Stock, A transformative pedagogy rooted in place: What can we learn from artists in the community? Alison Whately-Doucet, How might an examination of the influence of marketplace ideology on schooling lead to strategies to ameliorate contentious parent/teacher interactions? Antonio Redfern-Pucci, Diplomas for sale: The implications of how universities recruit students 2:00 – 2:15 Coffee Break BL 2030 2:15 - 3:45 Student Paper Presentations Session 3 BL 2034 Muga Miyakawa, Mindfulness in education: Some ethical considerations Keri-Lyn Durant, What about death education? Laxmi Pathak, Tensions of dwelling between two worlds: A personal journey Holly Tsun Haggarty, What is taken to be real? Compelled by the idea that a “teacher” need not be the familiar solitary human figure in the front of a classroom but could be various human and more-than-human entanglements, Julia worked with student teachers and a garden on the UBC campus to create conditions for “becoming teachers together.” The arts-based research project positioned the garden and the teacher education building as generative spaces for a series of site-specific art installations that she entitled “Threads sown, grown & given.” In this presentation, she will share gleanings from the plant and nonhuman animal teachers that figured in the research project (specifically: flax, fireweed, and spiders) and delve into the difficult knowledge that was knotted into the material practices of teaching with gardens, namely the difficult history of school gardens, struggles with failure, and relationships with land in the context of settler colonialism and the increasingly neoliberal academy. Julia Ostertag lives and gardens on the shores of the Kichisìpi (Ottawa River) where she is raising two young children, writing, and teaching courses related to teacher education, garden-based education, environmental education, food education, and arts-based research. She is currently working on a collaborative research project with the University of Ottawa, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and the Ottawa Forest and Nature School. She won the 2016 Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Dissertation Award.

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Page 1: 9:30 – 11:00 Keynote by Julia Ostertag BL 2030 · Friday, February 3, 2017 9:30 – 11:00 Keynote by Julia Ostertag BL 2030 Teaching, Researching, and Tripping in the School Garden:

FacultyofEducationGraduateStudents’Conference2017Friday,February3,2017

9:30 – 11:00 Keynote by Julia Ostertag BL2030

Teaching, Researching, and Tripping in the School Garden:Stories from an Arts-Based Research Metissage

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break BL2030 11:15 - 12:15 Student Paper Presentations Session 1 BL2034 Gemma Romano, Sustainable happiness: Exploring the impacts of sustainable living on individual happiness Melissa Twance, Lessons from land and water: Indigenous connections to the mazinaabikinigan at Agawa Rock Elizabeth Boileau, Understanding children’s relationship to insects

12:15 - 1:00 Lunch & Student Poster BL2030Anna Heaps, Return to learning in the classroom: Knowledge and experience of in-service, secondary teachers on mild traumatic brain injuries 1:00 - 2:00 Student Paper Presentations Session 2 BL2034 Varainja Stock, A transformative pedagogy rooted in place: What can we learn from artists in the community? Alison Whately-Doucet, How might an examination of the influence of marketplace ideology on schooling lead to strategies to ameliorate contentious parent/teacher interactions? Antonio Redfern-Pucci, Diplomas for sale: The implications of how universities recruit students 2:00 – 2:15 Coffee Break BL2030 2:15 - 3:45 Student Paper Presentations Session 3 BL2034 Muga Miyakawa, Mindfulness in education: Some ethical considerationsKeri-Lyn Durant, What about death education?Laxmi Pathak, Tensions of dwelling between two worlds: A personal journey Holly Tsun Haggarty, What is taken to be real?

Compelledbytheideathata“teacher”neednotbethefamiliarsolitaryhumanfigureinthefrontofaclassroombutcouldbevarioushumanandmore-than-humanentanglements,JuliaworkedwithstudentteachersandagardenontheUBCcampustocreateconditionsfor“becomingteacherstogether.”Thearts-basedresearchprojectpositionedthegardenandtheteachereducationbuildingasgenerativespacesforaseriesofsite-specificartinstallationsthatsheentitled“Threadssown,grown&given.”Inthispresentation,shewillsharegleaningsfromtheplantandnonhumananimalteachersthatfiguredintheresearchproject(specifically:flax,fireweed,andspiders)anddelveintothedifficultknowledgethatwasknottedintothematerialpracticesofteachingwithgardens,namelythedifficulthistoryofschoolgardens,struggleswithfailure,andrelationshipswithlandinthecontextofsettlercolonialismandtheincreasinglyneoliberalacademy.JuliaOstertaglivesandgardensontheshoresoftheKichisìpi(OttawaRiver)wheresheisraisingtwoyoungchildren,writing,andteachingcoursesrelatedtoteachereducation,garden-basededucation,environmentaleducation,foodeducation,andarts-basedresearch.SheiscurrentlyworkingonacollaborativeresearchprojectwiththeUniversityofOttawa,theOttawa-CarletonDistrictSchoolBoard,andtheOttawaForestandNatureSchool.Shewonthe2016CanadianAssociationforCurriculumStudiesDissertationAward.