The EDST blog has a number of aims:
1. To build community among members of the department;
2. To provide a space for dialogue on topics related to research, teaching, and other areas of general interest;
3. To practice communicating in new ways (e.g., ‘Op Ed’ style article, video or other creative media);
4. To encourage our engagement as public intellectuals.
For EDST Blog Contributors:
The blog is intended to foster open, safe environments and spaces for people to voice their opinions and ideas. Contributions from departmental members should respect departmental values of inclusion, anti-racism, support for Indigenous educational advancement and decolonization, and integrity in our relationships.
Meet the Team:
Blog Editor: Ella Wright
I’m an education advisor with a commitment to tackling roots causes of inequality, linked to the dominant stories of our time (colonial capitalism). I’ve lived and worked in over twenty countries, mainly in Southern and Eastern Africa. I believe that separation and grief create blockages for us to truly connect to ourselves, with others, and with our ancestral realms. I believe in a world where we remain open-hearted, and look to steward the land as a living entity. I have three young children and wish to equip them with values and skills to approach our changing world with reverence and compassion, to help us heal our wounded parts, together.
My research weaves together trauma studies and relational approaches to healing with education. I hope to apply this to land-based learning approaches, supporting reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through preservation of traditional languages and knowledges. I’m an international development professional with twenty years experience working in East and Southern Africa. I seek to understand highly-individualist notions of burnout and trauma through ‘decolonized’ and collective lenses. You’ll find me in the trees, with my feet deep in the earth, connected to all that is living.
Editorial Board
Silas Krabbe is a PhD student in EDST working within the philosophy of education. His research attempts to understand unintended cognitive violence between the educator and educatee, through the lenses of race, phenomenology, and theology. When off campus, you probably won’t find him; he’ll be out skiing or sailing with his wife and daughter.
Yotam Ronen is a PhD candidate at EDST. His research focuses on how radical educators during the early 20th century used education to realize their ideology of a free, egalitarian, and cooperative utopian society. He is also a bass player, currently playing live all over Vancouver with the Sam Rocha Trio, and bakes way too much bread.