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Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
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This study involves the program evaluation of the Conversations About Education pilot, developed as a community collaboration to offer professional development involving participants from a Faculty of Education, local school partners, and community organizations offering programming to Newcomers to Canada. The program sought to provide a collective forum where educational issues could be examined and discussed through a multi-epistemic lens. During the program events participants were encouraged to share their personal perspectives of the classroom experience, and together discuss the implications that lived/life experience has on confronting bias in teaching. The evaluation of the pilot program employed a qualitative approach …