Call for Proposals

Application closes October 13, 2023 at Midnight

Instructions

• To submit a proposal please read the information below on Session Types and Topic Streams and fill-in the form at the bottom of this page.
• The main requirement is a 250 word abstract outlining: the theme of your session; how you are honouring Indigenous resurgence; and, how you are moving your topic forward towards self-determination. Please avoid discipline or area-specific jargon or terminology, or explicitly define special terminology as needed.
• If you are a student and would like your submission to be considered for the student section of the program. Please indicate this on the form.
• Maximum two session proposals per person (including group submissions).
• Only complete proposals submitted through the online form before the deadline will be considered.
• Results and registration information will be emailed to you after adjudication in the Fall of 2024.

Session Types

1. Workshop

Time slot: 75 minutes (single session) or 2 hours 30 minutes (two sessions).

We are interested in workshops that are highly interactive and provide participants with a hands-on learning and networking experience. If you are proposing a two session workshop please provide a rationale in terms of activities, components and outcomes. Please provide the names of all facilitators and select a maximum workshop capacity when submitting your proposal.

A Workshop outline might look like this:

• Facilitator introduction           
• Introduction of workshop topic
• Presentation   
• Interactive group activity
• Summarize      
• Questions from participants
• Feedback/evaluation  
• Wrap-up

2. Panel

Time Slot: 75 minutes (single session)

Present and share experiences and perspectives in any of the four topic streams as part of a panel. Please include a moderator and names of all presenters with the titles of their individual presentations if applicable in the “presenter” component of the application.

2. Circle

Time Slot: 75 minutes (single session) or 2 hours 30 minutes (two sessions)

Present and share experiences and perspectives in any of the four topic streams as part of a talking circle. If you are proposing a talking circle, please indicate who will facilitate and provide details on their approach to facilitation in the abstract.  

3.  Presentation

Time Slot: 25 minutes for individual presentation

Present in any of the four topic streams. The selection committee will group these individual presentation submissions thematically into sessions with a moderator. Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present with the remaining 5 minutes of the allotted time dedicated to discussion and/or questions.

Topic Streams

The organizing theme of the 2024 S’TEṈISTOLW̱ Conference is ‘Where the Waters Meet.’ This metaphor reflects the intentions we have for this gathering.  

• We welcome session proposals that speak to the Conference theme 
• Our four topic streams for session proposals fall within the two conference sub-themes of Indigenous Pedagogies and Relationality & Living Our Collective Values.
• We encourage submissions that emphasize praxis and reflect experience – the ‘doing and being’ of Indigenous education – and those that include participatory elements and audience-engagement. 
• We also have a stream for the students and alumni of Indigenous undergraduate, college and community-based education initiatives to present on their work, perspectives and experience in relation to the four main topics. 

Indigenous Pedagogies

2. Supporting Learner Engagement

• Engaging Indigenous pedagogies and forms of Traditional Knowledge (re)production in teaching such as storytelling and language regeneration.
• Examples of creative and innovative strategies for supporting and realizing student success such as online and distance education, arts-based approaches, filmmaking, community mapping and social media.
• Insights into student support systems in counselling, advising and tutoring including working with Elders and community Knowledge Keepers.

Relationality & Living Our Collective Values

4. Strengthening Alliances

• Perspectives on:
  • How can we collectively strengthen relationships, in particular, between Indigenous education practitioners and institutions?
  • How can we build local, national and international movements and networks of Indigenous educators and their allies?
  • How good allyship can be modelled in education and scholarship?
• Examples of creative, innovative, and reciprocal relationship-building through programs, activities, events, projects, etc. between Indigenous communities, agencies, organizations and partner post-secondary institutions, including internationally.