A part of 5.2: Lightning Talk session.

Positionality Through Reflection on Connections With Land
Kerry Taylor, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, FAS
Sabeen Kazmi, PhD Candidate (CRI364 Teaching Assistant), Centre for Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, FAS

The session will focus on description, discussion and reflection upon an assignment called, “Connecting and Learning With Land” for CRI364, “Indigenous Peoples & Criminal Justice” (undergraduate 300-level course) at the Centre for Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies. Course facilitator, Professor Kerry Taylor, and teaching assistant, Sabeen Kazmi will share and discuss this assignment in terms of pedagogy, learning objectives, evaluation, and student feedback. We will also discuss how the assignment has heightened and strengthened our own work (Kerry: wholistic and socio-legal pedagogy) (Sabeen: PhD research), our course facilitation, and our ability to connect to land and undergraduate students through embodied and reflective teaching and learning. We will situate ourselves as both teacher/learner, in the particular contexts of our own “decolonizing” journeys, and will pay tribute to the ways the land and our students’ engagement with this assignment has fostered emergent practices of reciprocity, learning with our whole selves, and expanded relational accountability.