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Fall 2025 Office of Teaching and Learning Book Club

During the Fall 2025 semester, the OTL Book Club will discuss Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies (Leddy & Miller, 2023). The book club is open to all University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown faculty, staff, instructors, teaching assistants, and graduate students. Each book club meeting can be attended in-person or virtually.   

We will approach this book club through a decolonial lens of experiential and wholistic learning. At each meeting, book club members will take part in a facilitated discussion of chapters in the book and share their thoughts, questions, and experiences. We will augment these discussions with opportunities to engage in Indigenous pedagogies, offering space for decolonial, Indigenized, and reconciliatory conversation, as well as practice and guidance on how educators can apply these approaches in their own contexts.

About Teaching Where You Are:

Teaching Where You Are offers a guide for non-Indigenous educators to work in good ways with Indigenous students and provides resources across curricular areas to support all students. In this book, two seasoned educators, one Indigenous and one settler, bring to bear their years of experience teaching in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary contexts to explore the ways in which Indigenous and Slow approaches to teaching and learning mirror and complement one another.

(From the publisher’s description ©2024 University of Toronto Press)  

Book Club Schedule 

Book Club members will meet during Fall 2025 on six Thursdays from 10:30am - 12:00pm, in-person or virtually on Microsoft Teams.

Accessing the Book 

Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies is available online through the McLaughlin Library.

Register for the Book Club  

Registration is limited to allow for effective discussions. Registrants will receive a calendar invitation for all sessions, which will include a Teams link if you wish to join virtually. Register below for the book club by September 12, 2025. Space is limited.

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