Lindsay Brant
Educational Developer, Indigenous Curriculum and Ways of Knowing
Kate Rowbotham
Assistant Professor (Adjunct) and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Organizational Behaviour
Why this course
As our society wrestles with the deep and lasting consequences of systems like colonialism, this course helps students learn from and value nondominant cultures and worldviews while reflecting on how business can play a collaborative role in moving us forward. Professor Brant and Professor Rowbotham introduce traditional Indigenous concepts like economies of care and draw connections to contemporary concepts like stakeholder theory and sustainability.
The unique design of this course centers students and takes a collaborative learning approach that breaks down traditional classroom hierarchal structures and develops a “community of care.”
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Course Highlights
Classroom Agreement and Learning Commitment Activity:
Our pedagogy of peace, which draws on the values of the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace (peace, strength, and a good mind), encouraged us to put learners at the centre of all that we do, allowing student voices to shape the learning and teaching that occurred. Our learning commitment exercise allowed students to explore the four aspects of the medicine wheel (emotional, mental, physical, spiritual) from the first day of the course, using it to guide us in our learning throughout the term.
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Biography
Lindsay Brant is from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario, Canada. She has a Master of Education degree from Athabasca University, and an Honours degree in English Literature and Indigenous Studies from Trent University. She is currently pursuing her PhD part-time in the Cultural Studies department at Queen's University. Lindsay works as an Educational Developer, Indigenous Pedagogies and Ways of Knowing in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Queen's. The focus of her work is on decolonizing and Indigenizing education with the goal of liberating learning spaces to create a more inclusive learning environment for all. Lindsay is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Smith School of Business at Queen's University, co-teaching a course she co-developed called Relationships and Reconciliation in Business and Beyond.
Kate Rowbotham (she, her, hers) is an assistant professor (adjunct) and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Organizational Behaviour at Smith School of Business. Kate received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and her Master of Science in Management from Queen's University. She completed her PhD at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Kate's research focuses on experiences of inclusion and exclusion across different organizational and educational settings, and these themes are present in her teaching as well. Kate’s deep commitment to equity and justice plays a part in her other involvement across the Queen’s community and beyond. Kate is a co-founder of a teaching community at Smith School of Business that focuses on inclusive, learner-centred pedagogy, and she trains teaching assistants in this approach.