S1E1 The Indigenous Engagement and Narrative in International Engagement

Our Morning Coffee Series proposes to take just ten minutes of your time, once a week to meet pioneers and leaders both familiar, sage, and longstanding, as well as new and innovative. Speakers will explore issues and topics crucial to the conversations we should be having.

This week's presenter:

DR. JOHN CHENOWETH
Associate Vice President – Academic & Community Education
John Chenoweth, PhD, is an educator from the Nicola Valley. He is a member of the Upper Nicola Indian Band of the Okanagan Nation. John has worked as an educator within the Nicola Valley since 1994. He has served many provincial and national initiatives pertaining to advancing Indigenous education.

John is employed at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT) as an Associate Vice-President-Academic and Community Education. NVIT has a foundational mandate to improve the quality of life of Indigenous people. Dr. Chenoweth's research interests include the use of Indigenous story work as a basis to provide theories and methodologies to critically analyze questions that need addressing by both the Indigenous community and educational system, alike, to advance and bring balance to Indigenous communities. John is married and a father to two sons.

[colindoerr]

Thanks for sharing this, John. I would like to learn more about Moricetown. Great initiative. I really appreciate you highlighting how we can better advance TRC and UNDRIP. Thank you!

[sandyprentice]

Thank you so very much for your coffee session. During my time with International Education in SD8 Kootenay Lake, we sent students overseas but rarely did any of our Indigenous students apply to go. So we dug deeper and found that finances were a significant barrier and asking students to fund raise when they are already struggling with their identities and traumas was too much to ask of them. Therefore, it is really important that government support initiatives like the one we had to send our Indigenous students to New Zealand for two weeks with the Maori nation and then the group in New Zealand would return to us. In the end, we could not secure the funding to promote this trip and a golden opportunity for our Indigenous students was lost. Do you know of any funding grants for indigenous students in grades 8-12 to access for international school trips such as the one described? Please advise.