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Building bridges in indigenizing education: digital narratives as a means of shifting non-Indigenous teacher horizons towards relationality
(2015-06-15)This thesis was developed in response to the pressing need to find methods for non-Indigenous teachers to actively teach for Indigenous student resilience, and to center Indigenous students and their families in an ... -
Chinese students' later-year experiences in Canadian universities / by Shimei Zang.
(2007)The mosaic of Canadian university campuses is changing to reflect the presence of more and more minority students, including both Chinese international and immigrant students. This qualitative study explored what Chinese ... -
Coming full circle : non-Aboriginal teachers' narratives of their engagement in urban Aboriginal education
(2012-11-10)Current Aboriginal researchers address how Eurocentrism construsts and reinforces a set of normative and oppressive "educational" values that do not recognize or include Indigenous epistemologies. A few studies are emerging ... -
Death education : simulating the end of life to beginning healthcare providers
(2015)The national Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada report advocates that professional healthcare education must become even more important for a systems-wide approach to handling hospice palliative and end-of-life ... -
Decolonizing actions that speak louder than words : science education through multiple lenses in Nunavut / by Marc Higgins.
(2010)"Education in Nunavut, still largely based on Euro-Canadian knowledge and Western teachings, is a negative experience for many Nunavut youth - the result of cultural inappropriateness and worldview mismatch. The mismatch ... -
Dis-placing Myself: Decolonizing a Settler Outdoor Environmental Educator
(2015)Indigenous communities across Canada are courageously fighting to protect their Lands for future generations. Many settler Canadians are trying to work in solidarity with Indigenous communities to disrupt socio-ecological ... -
Indigenizing Environmental Education: How can Land-Based Practices become an Educational Journey of Reconciliation?
(2015)Environmental education today centres on the protection and conservation of land for settler-Canadians. This research explores how including an Indigenous perspective of Land into environmental education can aid non-Indigenous ... -
Land-based pedagogies: a path to decolonizing environmental education in British Columbia
(2017)The purpose of this portfolio is to provide evidence of my graduate learning and to employ this new knowledge in a manner that contributes to the rich and varied decolonization efforts that are being made by Indigenous ... -
Laughter yoga as embodied healing and educational well-being with Nishnawbe youth
(2018)This portfolio is based upon a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Partnership Development Grant project entitled Tikkun Indigenous Youth Project: Pedagogies of Repair and Reconciliation. The ... -
Masculinity goes to class : gender performances and anti-oppressive perspectives in a secondary classroom
(2013-04-10)This research explores the complicated terrain of secondary school mates' masculinity and the ways they make sense and meaning of these identities in the socio-political context of a feminist, anti-oppressive teacher's ... -
Reconciliation through metissage in higher education
(2021)As a result of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) and its Calls to Action for education, many universities are working to design culturally appropriate curricula and to “Indigenize” their ... -
Remembering to Remember Shę́h Niyohgwaihó’dę (Our Original Instructions): A Self-Study on Indigenous Languages Programming in Six Nations
(2020)This research portfolio investigates one aspect of the Indigenous language revitalization/reclamation movement, which is Indigenous communities’ and peoples’ reclamation over their formal education systems with hopes of ... -
This land is our land? This land is your land : exploring the decolonizing journeys of White outdoor environmental educators
(2009-05)My own decolonizing journey has fostered a curiosity about the experiences of other White outdoor environmental educators who are engaged in the process of decolonizing their own practices and worldview. This qualitative ...