Kimberley Debassige
Teaching Fellow
Anishinaabemowin
Anishinaabemowin
Research interests: Inclusionary Strategies & Indigenous Education/Inclusive Education, Indigenous knowledges and transformative practices, Experiential Education & Land Based Education through Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression and Decolonizing pedagogy and practice, Anishinaabemowin (Language of the Anishinaabeg)
Education
Ph. D. (Candiate 1st year) 鈥 Faculty of Education, 黑料吃瓜资源
M. Ed. (Candidate, final year) 鈥 Faculty of Education, 黑料吃瓜资源
B. A. Hons. Native Studies 鈥 2013, University of Sudbury, Laurentian University
B. Ed 鈥 2015, ATEP 黑料吃瓜资源
O.C.T. 鈥 2015, Ontario College of Teachers
黑料吃瓜资源
Teaching philosophy follows Turtle shell and Turtle shaker concepts as mino-bimaadiziwn. It is through seeing everything as connected that knowledge transfer happens. Through these concepts one can view the interrelatedness of Anishinaabemowin (Language) and Mino-bimaadiziwin (Action and Intent in doing or living a good life), Inaadiziwin (behaviour and values), Enawendiwin (relationship and responsibilities), Gidakiiminaan (relationship to land and creation), Izhichigewin (way of doing), Inendamowin (way of thinking), and Gikendaasowin (way of knowing).
Publications: Indigenous post-Graduate education: Intercultural perspectives: Chapter 鈥淚 am part of creation: An Anishinaabe Graduate Student Reflection.鈥 Information Age Publishing (2020)
This is my fourth year as a Teaching Fellow for the Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures at 黑料吃瓜资源. I have been teaching beginners Anishinaabemowin through an understanding of mino-bimaadiziwin and Anishinaabe dbaajmownan (narratives) and aadsookaanan (sacred stories).
Teaching
ANSH 101: Beginning Anishinaabe Language and Culture I
ANSH 102: Beginning Anishinaabe Language and Culture II