Indigenous Education

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Dr. Sean Blenkinsop
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.5784

Sean Blenkinsop grew up in Northern Ontario and has a long of history as an outdoor, environmental, and experiential educator. Doctoral work, completed at Harvard, was philosophical in nature with an interest in choice, dialogue, community, and freedom. [ learn more ]

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Dr. Mark Fettes
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.4489

Mark Fettes began research on Canadian Aboriginal issues in 1992, under a contract with the Assembly of FIrst Nations. Initially focused on community-based language retention and revitalization, he came to see education as a key arena of cultural and linguistic negotiation, eventually completing a PhD on "the linguistic ecology of education" at OISE/UT (2000). [ learn more ]

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Kau'i Keliipio
Program Coordinator
tel: 778.782.7236

 

My personal interests and professional work experiences centre on Aboriginal/Indigenous education, colonization and de-colonization, and community-based Aboriginal/Indigenous teacher education. [ learn more ]

 

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Dr. Vicki Kelly
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.7226

Vicki Kelly is Métis and of Anishnabe aboriginal heritage. She received her M.A. and Ph. D. at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her scholarship is in the field of Indigenous Education with a focus on: indigenous knowledges, indigenous pedagogies, indigenous science, as well as indigenous language and culture revitalization. [ learn more ]

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Dr. Michael Ling
Senior Lecturer
tel: 778.782.4168

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Dr. Margaret MacDonald
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.7085

Margaret MacDonald specializes in early childhood education. Her two primary research areas include pedagogical documentation and intergenerational teaching and learning. Her recent work in the area of intergenerational teaching and learning has involved collaborative research and documentation of Halq’eméylem language revitalization and cultural transmission within the Sto:lo community. [ learn more ]

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Dr. Daniele Moore
Professor
tel: 778.782.4269

Danièle Moore's field is in educational sociolinguistics. Her research areas include the study of language contacts, and language transmission in multilingual contexts. She is interested in topics such as language education policies, the inclusion of Aboriginal epistemologies in education, and teacher training in minority contexts. [ learn more ]

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Dr. Michelle Pidgeon
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.8609

Michelle Pidgeon's family and ancestry is from Newfoundland and Labrador. Her current research agenda is located within the areas of higher education and Indigenity. In particular, she is interested in the intersections between student affairs and services, Indigenous peoples, and recruitment and retention in post-secondary education. [ learn more ]

Dr. Lisa Sterling
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.8609

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Dr. Doloes van der Wey
Assistant Professor
tel: 778.782.3798

Dolores van der Wey is a member of the Haida Nation and is of mixed Haida and Coast Salish ancestry. At present, she is program coordinator and site sponsor for the Indigenous Master of Education - Curriculum and Instruction: Equity in Education program at SFU. [ learn more ]

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Dr. Bonnie Waterstone
Coordinator, M.Ed. International
tel: 778.782.6625

Bonnie Waterstone is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and Coordinator of the International M.Ed. Program.

Her research examines issues in academic literacy teaching/learning, particularly with students who use English as an additional language or others who lack cultural/social capital that ensures success in postsecondary education. [ learn more ]

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Dr. June Beynon

Dr. June Beynon worked at SFU for 34 years developing programs, teaching, researching and publishing in the areas of First Nations, Anti-racist and Multicultural teacher education. She initiated and developed courses in these areas in the teacher education program as well as in undergraduate and graduate programs. She was Director of Professional Programs and British Columbia Education Domain leader for the International Metropolis Project on Immigration. [ learn more ]

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