Episode 56: Melanie Janzen

In Episode 56 Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook interviews Dr. Melanie Janzen a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba. Her research uses critical perspectives to explore the inter-related workings of power and discourses, particularly as they relate to the experiences of teachers and the marginalization of children. Dr. Melanie Janzen was a classroom teacher for 15 years. She is life-long Winnipegger, living and working on Treaty One Territory. We discussed the following: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, historical contexts of Winnipeg, impacts of electing Wab Kinew, Nahanni Fontaine, Bernadette Smith, and the teachings and scholarship of Niigaan Sinclair, the current political contexts of Manitoba, the Canadian Human Rights Museum, educational stigmatization of children in care, impacts of neoliberal educational policies,  learnification, the challenge of ethical obligations when caring for and teaching children and youth, solidarities in protesting Bill 64, restorying teachers’ stories, and so much more.