IEPI (Munk School) & CIDEC (С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ) Joint Seminar
Toward Transnational & Trans-Disciplinary Possibilities of Socio-Environmental Justices - Dr. Miwa Aoki Takeuchi
Chair: Carly Manion
In this talk, Dr. Miwa Aoki Takeuchi (University of Calgary) will invite the audiences to collectively imagine transnational and trans-disciplining acts that disrupt and repair the siloed disciplinary works, to address pressing socio-environmental justice issues. She will introduce her work that has been guided by the voices of young learners and their families, who live across multiple national and linguistic borders and have experienced forced displacement. Drawing from research-design partnerships with community partners and teachers, she will discuss possibilities of centering the voices and wisdom that have historically been hidden in the colonial mappings and geopolitical configurations. This talk is an open invitation for us to think of ways to rekindle human relationships with the more-than-humans and with each other.
С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ the Speaker
Dr. Miwa Aoki Takeuchi
Dr. Miwa Aoki Takeuchi (she/they) completed her PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Previously, she worked as a research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Takeuchi is part of the Educational Studies in Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. At the graduate education level, she teaches specialization courses in the Learning Sciences, Mathematics Education, Socio-Environmental Justices, and research methodology courses (including Ethnographic Research Approach). At the undergraduate education level, she teaches STEM education, Early Childhood Education Specialization, and Diversity in Learning.
Miwa is currently on the Board of Directors at the International Society of the Learning Sciences and Co-Chair of the Equity and Justice Committee at the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and was a former Co-President of the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada (2021-24). Miwa believes in fostering dynamic and porous communities that center equity and justice.
