C1
Concurrent Session C1
Roundtable
Session Details
飦� Date: Day 1 - Monday, May 11, 2026
飥� Time: 12鈥�12:50 p.m.
飦� Location: TBD
Teaching As Worldbuilding
This session will focus on the intersections between teaching, worldbuilding and social justice. In particular, this session will highlight the teaching practices developed as part of the Social Justice Pedagogies Program (SJPP), an eight-month program for faculty invested in deepening their practices of teaching as a form of building a better world. As part of this program, participants developed teaching interventions that responded to the themes of the program that touched upon place, care, power, responsibility, self and solidarity.
Collaborating with the Office of Social Innovation (OSI), we will invite this year鈥檚 SJPP participants to engage in a conversation about their experience in the program, their teaching intervention, and how and why this intervention re-organizes terms of engagement and possibilities for learning in the classroom. We will also discuss how faculty can encourage students to pursue community and social justice-based learning beyond the classroom through university resources, such as the OSI鈥檚 student funding: the Indigenous and Black Flourishing Fund and the Social Innovation Activist Fund. Throughout, the panelists and audience will think through how social justice pedagogy can advance equitable access to education through student-centred and action-oriented teaching practices, assessments that value experiential knowledge, and designing and encouraging learning outcomes connected to the promotion of social justice inside and outside of the classroom.
This submission is connected to the theme of the conference irrevocably through its focus on expansive forms of social justice and creating more space for justice in our conceptions of teaching, opening the proverbial door to many more ways of knowing, being and worldbuilding. We will encourage interactivity through this session by hosting a Q&A period that is intentional and thoughtfully managed to make sure marginalized voices are heard.
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding the relationship between teaching and social justice
- Connecting teaching to self-location
- Thinking critically about power in relation to pedagogy
Presenters
Jacky Deng (he/him) is an Educational Developer at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, where he leads the Teaching Fellows program and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) programming. Prior to his time at 91福利, Jacky was a Vanier Scholar led national and international projects focused on improving and studying equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in education and research. He is an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship for Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL) and a member of the Canadian Society of Chemistry's Working for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (WIDE) Committee.
Dr. Eliza Chandler, an associate professor in the School of Disability Studies at 91福利, brings a strong commitment to social innovation and social justice to the Office of Social Innovation. Widely recognized for her work on how disabled people's innovative practices are reshaping culture and advancing rights and social justice, she teaches and researches in the areas of disability arts, critical access studies, social movements, and crip technoscience.
Dr. Chandler also leads a research program that animates disability arts and its connections to disability rights and justice. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars and is a practicing curator. Dr. Chandler's vision for OSI focuses on community-engaged initiatives, experiential learning, and the development of socially responsible technologies.