A Radical New Kind of 'Probiotic' Education - A Conversation with Dr. Vanessa Andreotti

What does it mean to help our young people understand all of the
forces that have brought us to where we are, and also to take
real responsibility for all of the benefits and harms that that
has caused, in particular to indigenous communities around the
world?


What kinds of education might 'enable healthier possibilities of
(co)existence that are viable, but are unthinkable/unimaginable
within our dominant cognitive and affective frames of reference.'
(GTDF Collective, Global Citizenship Otherwise, p3)


An education of the gut and the heart, not just the head!


This week, it was an honour to chat to the amazing Dr. Vanessa de
Oliveira Andreotti.


Vanessa is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University
of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race,
Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam
Chair in Critical Multicultural Education.


Vanessa has worked extensively across sectors internationally in
areas of education related to global justice, global
citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge
systems and the climate and nature emergency.


Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing
humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism⁠:
https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/hospicing-modernity/


You can find links to her Gesturing Towards Decolonial
Futures Arts/Research Collective⁠: https://decolonialfutures.net/


Global Citizenship Otherwise Study Program, created by Gesturing
Towards Decolonial Futures:
https://decolonialfutures.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/decolonial-futures-gce-otherwise-1.pdf


Vanessa is also one of the designers of the course 'Facing Human
Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability'⁠:
https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/teaching-learning-and-development/courses/facing-human-wrongs-2-0-climate-complexity-and-relational-accountability/


Social Links


LinkedIn: @vanessa-andreotti


GTDF Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@DecolonialFuturesCollective