Lalai Abbas

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Lalai Abbas

PhD in Education

Graduate Students

Research Area

Curriculum Theory: Transformational Learning, Internationalization of Curriculum

Supervisor

Dr. Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Biography

Lalai Abbas is a teacher, international consultant, and a researcher without borders

Research Interests

  • Curriculum theory
  • Pedagogy
  • Art-based pedagogies
  • Teacher education
  • Culture and Academic Culture
  • Diversity and Inclusive Education
  • Pakhtun Female Education
  • Gender Equity
  • Social Justice

Website

Twitter: @Lalai_Abbas

Science Rendezvous Kingston 2022

Date

Saturday May 7, 2022
10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Location

A Free Family Event

Save the date for Science Rendezvous Kingston 2022!

Saturday, May 7, 2022 at the Leon’s Centre

Celebrate science and honour our amazing Kingston-area researchers & scientists! From May 7-22 you’re invited to hundreds of virtual and in-person events! Interested in the Ice Age? Deep space? Robots? Hearts? Brains? Climate? Mining? We’ve got all this and more and everything is free! Whether you’re 9 or 90, you’ll learn, have fun and be inspired by the wonder and possibilities of science, technology and engineering.

This event is free and family-oriented.

There is something for everyone!

Science Rendezvous events and workshops go well beyond the May 7 date - visit the Science Rendezvous webpage to find out more. 

For more information contact Kim Garrett at community.outreach@queensu.ca.

Unlearning colonialism and renewing kinship relations with Dr. Dwayne Donald, University of Alberta

Date

Tuesday May 10, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location

Outdoor Classroom in Paul Park Garden at Duncan McArthur Hall

dwayneWith this talk, Dwayne will discuss colonialism as an ideological and structural predominance embedded within schooling culture and share insights on what it might take to unlearn colonialism.

When: Tuesday, May 10 4:00pm-5:30pm

Where: Outdoor classroom (in Paul Park, the courtyard at Duncan McArthur Hall, 511 Union St.). This is a covered outdoor space, so please come rain or shine.

Dwayne Donald is a descendent of the amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills people) and the pâpâsces nehiyawak and works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. His work focuses on ways in which Indigenous wisdom traditions can expand and enhance understandings of curriculum and pedagogy.

The event is free to all members of the community and there is no registration required.