The Convo | Indigenizing Pedagogy with Donna Goodleaf and Sandra Gabriele

Sit down for the Convo. A special interview podcast researched, produced and created by The Concordian team.

In this episode...

This episode’s host Aidan Raynor sits down with Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf, Director of Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy at Concordia University. She is joined by Sandra Gabriele, Vice-Provost, Innovation in Teaching & Learning.

This follows the university’s announcement that it’d be indigenizing its engineering program, which Goodleaf would have a hand in overseeing and implementing.

Reaching mainstream headlines and many online forums, Aidan chats with Goodleaf on what it truly means to indigenize a program and its implications.

Translation of Donna Goodleaf’s introduction:
Greetings! My name is Kahérakwas Donna Goodleaf. I am from the Turtle clan; and I am from the community of Kahnawake. And I am a citizen of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation, which is part of the Rotinonhsíon:ni Confederacy (commonly known as the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy).

Hosted by Aidan Raynor
Produced by Podcast Editor Matthew Daldalian
Music by Saro Hartounian