Panel Discussion at UNB to Honour Ottilia Chareka
Author: Communications
Posted on Nov 9, 2011
Category: UNB Saint John
The public is invited to the University of New Brunswick on Monday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. for a commemorative panel called Educators as change agents: What educators can do about violence. It will take place at Marshall d’Avray Hall, 10 Mackay Dr., UNB Fredericton, in Room 261.
The panel honours Ottilia Chareka, – an educator and a change agent – a woman who in both her personal and professional lives took the risks that were required to act as a force of powerful change in the lives of the people she cared about.
This panel takes up the idea of educator as a change agent with stories / experiences from the hard work of addressing violence in schools and institutions, including gendered violence, radicalized violence, and homophobic violence.
Opening remarks will be given by Elizabeth Blaney, Researcher & Lise Bellefleur, Department of Education. Panel members include:
Gwen Bear, Elder
Mary McCarthy, PhD candidate & author
Judy Piers-Kavanaugh, high school educator
Matthew Rogers, PhD candidate
Sherry Rose, PhD candidate
Closing remarks will be given by Linda Eyre, professor of education at UNB.
For further information please contact:
Elizabeth Blaney, MMFC Researcher blaney@unb.ca / (506) 458-7378
Ann Sherman, Dean Faculty of Education shermana@unb.ca / (506) 453-4862
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