By Janey Lew and Samantha Nock, with Ayaka Yoshimizu
Stories in/relation is a teaching and learning companion resource within the in/relation Project, created to support facilitators’ understanding of Indigenous topics, histories, and lived realities and to inspire facilitators to share this learning with other new learners.
The textual component, bibliography, and show notes can be found here: PDF
Stories in/relation Episode 2, “in/relation with Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu”
In This Episode
How do students who are new to Canada respond to learning about Indigenous histories and contemporary realities? What happens when you start an Introduction to Canada course for exchange students with a module on where our teaching and learning takes place?
Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu, faculty member in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) shares insights from her experiences unpacking land acknowledgements and UBC’s relationship to residential school legacies with students from the UBC-Ritsumeikan Exchange Program.