https://www.makimotapanyane.com/news daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/5aae7c91-4c12-48a6-922b-a06d7c90ce76/Book+Cover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/9b208cb0-3de2-4087-ac73-59c799ff40aa/IMG_5129.png https://www.makimotapanyane.com/news/mount-royal-university-distinguished-faculty-awards-2020 monthly 0.5 2020-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1604974655851-3015KMQM3PJZ8O9ETVDS/mru_logo_png.png News - Mount Royal University Distinguished Faculty Awards 2020 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/news/wp30lo2kmivntm2s5jg25ci1ny3a5g monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1604549785485-LY41RQ7MDXJS1Z9D8O0M/MRU+Knowledge+Mobilization+Award.jpeg News - Mount Royal University Knowledge Mobilization Award 2019 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/news/motherhood-and-lonesingle-parenting-a-21st-century-perspective monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/news/matricentric-feminism-theory-activism-politics-practice-and-representation monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/news/mothering-in-hip-hop-culture-representation-and-experience monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1604544022722-13ULURFWX8YNHUYJYWU0/Motherhood+and+Lone+Single+Parenting.jpg Home Motherhood and Lone/Single Parenting: A 21st Century Perspective "Maki Motapanyane brings together an outstanding collection of essays to explore our fastest growing family form: the lone parent - usually lone mother - family. This exciting volume showcases a diversity of scholarly methods and disciplines - including media studies, women's studies, auto-ethnography, sociology and policy studies - to analyse mothering. The stand-out contribution here is the emphasis on diversity and the associated critique of heteronormativity with reference to two-parent families, though also, more interestingly, in relation to lone parents themselves. Here we see lone mothers as in internally heterogeneous group. This volume is essential reading for all who are interested in the rise and diversification of lone mother families." Petra Bueskens, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1604544547847-B3POQ2DJWKTV0VG7TQVF/New+Maternalisms.jpg Home - “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable) This rich collection draws together accomplished motherhood scholars across disciplines to raise new questions about how we define and understand global motherhood. It gives voice and new perspective to maternal figures previously less recognized in academic reading. Most importantly, the global perspective explored in this book will raise awareness about the challenges of understanding motherhood both as an experience and a discipline." Laura Tropp, Professor, Marymount Manhattan College, author of A Womb with a View: America's Growing Public Interest in Pregnancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1604545380054-FRFEVGENF4PFAEM0IAST/Mothering+in+Hip+Hop+Culture.jpg Home - Mothering in Hip-Hop Culture: Representation and Experience "Thoughtfully compiled, beautifully written, and deeply theorized through a lens of feminist praxis, this collection features contributions by some of today's brightest scholars. It is a must read and must teach for Women's and Gender Studies, Hip-Hop Studies, and every other study that wants to get at the heart, soul, and materiality of mothering within and beyond hip-hop." Rachel Raimist, pioneer Hip-Hop feminist filmmaker, Associate Professor, Depts. of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama. https://www.makimotapanyane.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-11-21 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/courses daily 0.75 2021-09-07 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/work daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://www.makimotapanyane.com/pedagogy daily 0.75 2021-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1606883492641-1WXJQKSFVIO8695643HB/image.jpg Pedagogy - Liberatory Pedagogy As an educator and mentor, my pedagogy draws from liberatory teaching philosophies and frameworks (e.g. Paolo Freire). It is an approach to scholarly teaching that employs intersectionality (e.g. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s methodological configuration) as an analytic framework through which to critically engage diverse groups of learners. This involves contemplating multi-dimensionality and the interplay of numerous processes such as racialization, treatments of sex and gender, and class stratification, among other factors - in the study of key local and global issues, the structuring of opportunity and access, as well as in examining prominent modes of discursive, aesthetic, and collective identification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1606883669448-O0PVTMSI7QEUPG2L1FMV/image.jpg Pedagogy - Creativity and Collaboration I have endeavoured to promote collaborative learning practices that foster space for the creativity of learners and their life experiences within the scope of curriculum design and aims. This has facilitated greater awareness of the uses and concrete implications of learning dialogues and academic resources in the lives of learners. I encourage a sense of responsibility and ownership over the learning process. Critical thinking and intellectual rigour are indispensable requirements of the collective deliberations facilitated through my pedagogical practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1606884045345-GFYZ602BNXLCT94IHHU8/image.jpg Pedagogy - Active Participation The active participation of learners in group discussions is essential to the clarification of information and the mastering of concepts, so I encourage a dynamic, interactive learning environment. I view the teaching space as a site of respectful, democratic learning. Students are encouraged to participate with self-awareness, mindful consideration of others, and accountability. Genuine curiosity or disagreements in the classroom sometimes run counter to preferred or ideal forms of expression, and it is the measure of respect and humanity communicated in these moments that often aides the ensuing dialogue. My emphasis and teaching approach mobilizes conceptual clarification, related research and data, a deconstruction of argumentation patterns and basic underlying assumptions, and explanations of the historical trajectory of particular arguments and ideologies. In this process, I highlight the importance of individual and collective reflexivity, and our responsibility in producing cogent and defensible articulations of the world around us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1604975997248-2QG93XJLXEPHP2KJSL2X/image.jpg Pedagogy - Self-Reflexivity, Critical Thinking and Defensible Arguments Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) as an academic discipline evolved from a context of social justice activism in the U.S. and Canada. The mass social movements of the 1970s and 1980s that organized for gender equality in Canada and the U.S. were also the catalyst for the introduction of feminist and Women’s Studies courses in universities. This history has meant that alongside the particular theoretical frameworks and research methodologies that typify WGS as an academic discipline, are also WGS forms of scholarship and teaching that reveal a consistent leaning towards matters of social justice. The effect that this has had on the way that I promote learning is that self-reflexivity and the commitment to developing defensible arguments are key to the instruction that learners receive on the concepts and methods associated with critical thinking. Self-reflexivity is emphasized as crucial in the development of defensible arguments that speak to one’s intellectual allegiances. Learners are encouraged to thoughtfully consider their habituated ways of knowing; to develop a clear understanding of the multiple factors that have shaped their core values and beliefs; to assess what they believe they know, and the process by which they came to ‘know’ these things. Learners are then aided in locating this awareness relative to a broader landscape of co-existing viewpoints. The practice of defensible argumentation I labour to foster is done via emphasis on critical self-understanding, combined with an informed comprehension of the larger landscape of debates within which one is expressing their viewpoint. The goal is to have learners understand how and why they come to value what they do (having assessed the extent to which their viewpoints can be reasonably substantiated), and to have individuals be able to clearly and defensibly articulate their intellectual affinities within the context of competing or opposed discourses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1606884272931-BX8B7BLE4I4UZZC2J9BS/image.jpg Pedagogy - Relevance to Daily Life I have sought to understand the aspirations and experiences of my communities of learners within the context of the academic curriculum we have shared, as well as outside of the university environment. This includes having an understanding of the wage labour obligations, parenting and care responsibilities, and extra-curricular activities of learners. I frequently enhance explanations of course material with examples tailored to the experiences, circumstances and interactions of particular groups of learners. I have co-written letters with my students in response to hate speech and gendered violence in our midst, and encourage learners to bring issues of relevance to them into the classroom. I am committed to continued work in understanding the lived experiences of learners, and to an ethics of mentorship tailored to their interests and passions. Ultimately, my pedagogical aim is to expand the intellectual course of learners while facilitating the development of a ripened and responsible understanding of ourselves in the world. https://www.makimotapanyane.com/consulting daily 0.75 2021-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1637478006950-PFXF562C5BIFGBIT0QEN/unsplash-image-HocFQHhGjDE.jpg MESA Consulting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1637478531860-W7T3Q1XAQAV2E56ZSVZJ/unsplash-image-0sT9YhNgSEs.jpg MESA Consulting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1637479025094-78ZYHRNSRJZRL3PEP28M/unsplash-image-UTw3j_aoIKM.jpg MESA Consulting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1637479228336-GRXBEAILP3CD7PDF0BGL/unsplash-image-Jnxtlv_Fo14.jpg MESA Consulting https://www.makimotapanyane.com/mesa-consulting daily 0.75 2021-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/88a5945d-1d71-46f1-9ef5-e634d821eb62/MESA+Consulting+%28white+background%29.jpg Mesa Consulting (Linked Page) - Services & Programming MESA Consulting delivers a variety of customized services and programming to individuals, employers, and groups. We build skills in: Communication and dialogue Conflict management and resolution Constructive and effective team dynamics Cross-cultural literacy Emotional intelligence Equity and meaningful inclusion Mindful leadership Self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-assessment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/c6aeb37e-cd61-409a-a6ac-8b5f5ea13e23/unsplash-image-GWe0dlVD9e0.jpg Mesa Consulting (Linked Page) - Customized Consulting Program/workplace assessment Tailored recommendations Ongoing review and implementation assessment Building equity and inclusion capacity and infrastructure Employer/employee(s) team dynamics Curriculum development and educational programming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1637521838465-VSPLZ2JDE3RKT6GO2P4C/unsplash-image-COWf-5ZtZ6w.jpg Mesa Consulting (Linked Page) - Seminars ‘Cross-Cultural Literacy in the Workplace’ ‘What is Productive about Conflict?’ ‘Fundamentals of Conflict Management in the Workplace’ ‘Advanced Conflict Management and Resolution for Employers and Managers’ ‘Emotional Intelligence in Leadership’ ‘Increasing Team and Workplace Accountability’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa35e7a63686e25dba33eb4/1637521916740-5XKSGXBOJGNWLZRSRA7T/unsplash-image-jg_t3PBq5Jo.jpg Mesa Consulting (Linked Page) - Youth Programming Youth Leadership, Communication, Team Building (LCT-A) (ages 13-15) Youth Leadership, Communication, Team Building (LCT-B) (ages 16-18) Peer Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Skills (PDCR-A) (ages 13-15) Peer Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Skills (PDCR-B) (ages 16-18) Youth Mindful Leadership (YML) (ages 16-18) Young Women’s Leadership Retreat (YWL) (ages 16-18)