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Learning to build better relationships between people, the planet, and more-than-human beings-- A blog by Melissa Fockler, PhD

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- November 05, 2011

. . . that male toads have more developed vocal chords than female toads? Even in the animal kingdom, females are silenced.

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- September 13, 2011

"They knew, for their own good reasons, what the world was like, and their experience acted as a filter through which any new message was tested, confirmed, rejected, challenged, and reinterpreted. Changing their minds would have meant changing the world they experienced, not simply convincing them of a new set of ideals around equality of opportunity and the desirability of a different world." - Kessler, Ashenden, Connell and Dowsett (1985)

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Melissa Fockler: I acknowledge that the land I live on is the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Mississauga and Chippewa Nations of the Williams Treaty. I recognize that forced residential schooling has caused intergenerational trauma and emotional and physical pain for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. I value and respect Indigenous pedagogies and epistemologies.

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