Indigenous Knowledge Public Lecture Series: Anita Lafferty

ii’ taa’poh’to’p’s 2019/20 Indigenous Knowledge Public Lecture Series welcomes thought-provoking Indigenous thinkers across all disciplines, honouring UCalgary’s commitment to truth and reconciliation.

Seeking Relationships with Earth & Sky - Healing from the Land: The Land as Curriculum - Indigenous STEM Perspectives

Anita Lafferty is a PhD student at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Secondary Education. She is of Dene and Cree descent and a member of the Liidlii Kue First Nation in the NWT. Her doctoral research examines approaches of Indigenous Curriculum Perspectives that focus on Indigenous Science in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) and the relations with land-based learning. She takes a multidisciplinary approach in her research drawing on the fields of multimedia, art, poetry, storytelling and Indigenous methodologies.