A gesture of understanding: Dal studio course supports faculty in decolonizing pedagogies – Dalhousie University

February 14, 2025

Do you know the difference between the Mi’kmaw words Wela’lin and Wela’lioq?

As expressions of thanks, they’re among the language’s most-used words. But the distinction between them — the former used in offering thanks to an individual, the latter a group — is lost on many who aren’t fluent.

Participants in a studio course offered by Dal’s Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) last year had the chance to pick up this valuable knowledge and much more thanks to the work of Rachelle McKay.

McKay, Education Developer, Indigenous Knowledges and Ways of Knowing with CLT, designed and offered Decolonizing Pedagogy: Nourishing our Minds, Bodies, Hearts and Spirits to instructors across the university for the first time last summer.

Read More: https://www.dal.ca/news/2025/02/14/indigenous-pedagogy-course-dalhousie.html