ASIAN CHANGEMAKERS: How Miwa Takeuchi empowers through education
Miwa Takeuchi, associate professor at the University of Calgary's Werklund School of Education, pioneers experiential service-learning projects like "Soil Camp," engaging local refugee children and youth in land-based education for social and environmental justice. Her work blends community engagement with academic research, challenging deficit perspectives to amplify marginalized voices and foster pedagogy grounded in equity, anti-oppression, and anti-colonialism.