Transformative Intersections:
When Indigenization and
Internationalization Meet
Assessment: What Did I
Learn?
Linda M Pardy Ed.D
Linda.pardy@ufv.ca
Associate Professor
University of the Fraser Valley

Defining At- Risk &
Non-traditional
• At-risk - academic failure because they

lack cognitive and emotional skills
•Non-traditional - those underrepresented
in post-secondary participation

Need
Largest growing population of
students coming to campus
70% Plus
Harper & Quaye, 2009

Learning At Intersections
Sharing What Works
Process
Relationship

Respect

Relevance

Empathy
Innovation

Oughtness

Risk/Support
Creativity

Reflection

Openness

Care

Reciprocity

Assessment

“we can’t discover everything there is to
know about the conditions that promote
and characterize high levels of student
engagement, learning, and educational
effectiveness with a short, highly focused
student survey …
We look forward to working with
colleagues across the country who also
are searching for valid, reliable indicators
of collegiate quality”.

Kuh (2001, p.7)

Purpose:
1. Enhance the student
engagement data by
providing the voice of
non-traditional learners
2. Build my own capacity as
a teacher & mentor

Heuristic Inquiry (Examines Essence)
1. Initial Engagement
2. Immersion in the Topic
3. Incubation

4. Illumination
5. Explication & Creative Synthesis
Moustakas (1990)

Findings:
1. Readiness Factors:
• Self
• Institutional
• Instructional

Adult
Education

Higher
Education

Student
Development

Instructional Readiness:
Pedagogy of Hospitality
Acts as a “Buffer”

Embraces Collaborative Learning
Ties Content to the Outside
World
Encourages Inward Reflection
Values: prior experience, generosity,
steadfastness, practical competence,
determination, humour, ingenuity, &
imagination

Hospitality in an education setting is
“the radical openness to the other –
openness in both sharing and
receiving, then revising and sharing
again, and so forth.
Practicing hospitality means inviting
and providing reciprocity”

Bennett (2003)

Explored hospitality is
attending to otherness,
and understanding our
own otherness.
Derrida (2000)

“hospitality requires that the facilitator
has taken an honest look inward.
The hospitable facilitator is aware of his
own fears, preferences, pressure points,
and gifts”.
My own self-inquiry and preparation
allowed me to absorb some of the
participants’ anxiety and create a safe
and hospitable space for them to share
their stories.

Robinson and Rose (2007)

Universal
Design

Research +
Experience

Hospitality =
Diverse Learner
Success

Blending Theory
Intercultural
Competency

Reflective Practice

Having made a discovery, I
shall never see the world again
as before. My eyes have
become different; I have
made myself into a person
seeing & thinking
differently. I have crossed
a gap, the heuristic gap
which lies between
problem &
discover.
(Polanyi, 1962, p.143)

Pedagogy of
Hospitality

Bennett, 2003; Derrida, 2000

Critical Incident
Part 1

How Ought I Act
Brookfield, S.D. (1995).

Critical Incident
Part 2

The Power of
Relationship
Brookfield, S.D. (1995).

Be a Duck