Derek Rasmussen | Simon Fraser University (original) (raw)

Legal researcher and writer. Buddhist meditation teacher.

Authored or co-authored chapters in 7 books:
Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis (2005), C.A. Bowers and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (Eds.);
Fields of Green Restorying Culture, Environment and Education (2009): Marcia McKenzie, Paul Hart, Heesoon Bai, and Bob Jickling (Eds.);
The Way Forward: Educational Reforms that Focus on the Cultural Commons and the Linguistic Roots of the Ecological/Cultural Crises (2011), C. A. Bowers;
Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies (2013), Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat and Kelly Young (Eds.);
Dark Mountain: Issue 7 (2015), Paul Kingsnorth & Dougald Hine (Eds.);
Art, Ecojustice, and Education : Intersecting Theories and Practices (2018), Raisa Foster, Jussi P. Mäkelä, & Rebecca A. Martusewicz (Eds.).
A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene (2020) [co-authored chapter].

Writings also in:
the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, Yes Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, InterCulture, Science for the People, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Our Schools Our Selves, and Turning Wheel (Magazine of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship).

Invited speaker:
Eastern Michigan University, Concordia University, McGill University, Trent University, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Carleton University, Ottawa University, York University, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Tampere University (Finland), Nunavut Arctic College, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Invited talks:
"Justice before Reconciliation in Canada" - Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions (2000); Beyond Freire: Integrating Spirituality in Higher Education, Smith College and University of Massachusetts (2000)
Third International Holistic Education Conference, OISE, University of Toronto.(2001); Governor General's Canadian Study Conference, Iqaluit. (2001); Intercultural Institute of Montreal (2005); Aboriginal Studies Program, University of Ottawa (2005, 2007); the Yale Agrarian Studies Colloquium; "Living with the Earth: Colloquium" (2007); EcoJustice Conference and Retreat; Trent University (2007); Degrowth Conference Montreal (2012); Loon Lake (BC) Colloquium: Education with, for and by the Earth (2013);The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference (2013, Amherst, MA); The Ecojustice and Activism Conference (2014, 2015, 2016, E.Michigan U); American Educational Studies Association (2015 San Antonio TX); Art, EcoJustice, and Education Conference (2017, Tampere, Finland); The Finnish Educational Research Association Conference (2018); the American Educational Research Association (2017, San Antonio; 2019, Toronto); Unsettling Conference (Reconciliation series; Concordia U, Montreal 2019); Inuit Studies Conference (2019); Ecofeminism and Education Conference (2020, Tampere U. Finland).

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