My current program of research is in Coalition and reparative politics in university contexts. This initiative extends on earlier doctoral research on coalition building for First Nations graduate students and subsequent research, which argues that the university classroom can be a site for coalition building practices in First Nations education. This work is inextricably linked to anti-oppression/anti-racism education and informs my work in pre-service teacher pedagogy where a goal is to develop critical literacy skills through the strategic use of literary genres, among other literature. My research is also informed by Indigenous and critical race feminisms.

Email: dolores_vanderwey@sfu.ca

Fellowships and Awards

Gina Blondin First Nations Award

UBC, 2004 – $800

Dofasco First Nations Fellowship

UBC, 2003-2004 – $11, 000

Joseph Katz Memorial Scholarship

Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC, 2003-2004 – $5, 050

Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Fellowship

Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC, 2002-2003 – $16, 600

University Graduate Fellowship

Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC, 2002-2003 – $12, 800 declined

Dofasco First Nations Fellowship

UBC, 2001-2002 – $11, 500

Grants

President’s Research Grant (PRG)

Simon Fraser University, December, 2006-  Title of Project – Coalition Politics in University Contexts:  The Role of Intragroup Dynamics in Building Communicative Relations Among Groups – $10,000.

Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Grant (SAS)

University of Alberta, November, 2005 – Title of Project – Building Coalitions in University Classrooms – $3863.90

Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Grant (SAS) Course Release – April, 2006 (Scheduled for fall 2006 – Not taken up)

Endowment Fund for the Future (EFF), Special Capital Equipment Fund

University of Alberta, July, 2005 – Title of Project – The University Classroom as Site for Coalition Work in Aboriginal Education – $6632.00

Faculty of Education, Dean’s Office

University of Alberta, March, 2005 – Title of Project – Funding Indigenous Peoples Education Students Participation in the Third Annual Indigenous Graduate Symposium, University of British Columbia – $6589

Teaching and Other Professional Experience

Courses Taught

• EDPS 410: Ethics and the Law in Teaching
• EDPS 601: From Oral Tradition to Written Text
• EDPS 474: Contemporary Issues in the Education of Native Peoples
• EDST 425: Anthropology of Education
• EDUC 473: Designs for Learning Reading
• EDUC 823: Curriculum and Instruction in an Individual Teaching Specialty
• WMST 301: The Roles of Aboriginal Women in Canada

Courses Developed and Approved

EDPS 501: Indigenous Feminisms: Identity, Representation and Activism in Education

Teaching Assistantships

Developing Short Courses, Workshops and Seminars (ADED 329)

Upper level Adult Education course, University of British Columbia, Winter 2003.

Presented overviews of the development and organization of First Nations workshops and a symposium to support students’ acquiring understanding of the key principles, concepts and tasks necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate short-term, intensive educational programs for adult learners. This was a segment of a larger course, working with Dr. Shauna Butterwick,  Lead discussion sessions, and assessed and evaluated course assignments.

Guest Lectures

“Exploring the Politics of Ecological Issues in Indigenous Education.”  EDPS 656 Politics of Education, University of Alberta, March, 2006.

“Introduction to Issues in Aboriginal Education for Pre-Service Teachers.”  EDPS 310 Managing the Learning Environment, University of Alberta, March, 2006.

“Bridging Difference: An Aboriginal Perspective.”  ED-D531 Concepts and Theories of Administration, University of Victoria, July, 2005.

“Troubling Notions of Leadership in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Contexts.” ED-D591 Leadership and Social Justice, University of Victoria, July, 2005.

“Issues in Aboriginal Education – the Alberta Context.” EDPS 310 Managing the Learning Environment, University of Alberta, November, 2004.  (four sessions)

“Cohorts and First Nations Education.” EDPS 360  Education and Society.  University of Alberta, November, 2004.

“Diversity and Children’s Literature: Bringing Social Justice Issues to Life,” Language and Literacy, University of British Columbia, March 2004.

“Examining Aboriginal History Through Literature,” History of First Nations Schooling, University of British Columbia, July 2003.

“Analyzing First Nations Issues Through the Literary Text,” Critical Analysis of Education, University of British Columbia, March 2003

“Participatory Action Research and the Literary Text,” Introduction to Methods and issues in First Nations Research, University of British Columbia, October 2002.

“Tribal Wisdom: Critiquing Aboriginal Notions of Community from Western and Indigenous Perspectives,” Understanding and Creating Community in Adult Education, University of British Columbia, August 2002.

“Exploring Aboriginal Issues Through Literature with Non-Aboriginal Children and Aboriginal Adult Learners,” Center for Literacy, University of Alberta, March 2002

“First Nations Perspectives in Curriculum Development,” Early Literacy Development, University of Alberta, March 2002.

“First Nations Issues and the Literary Text,” Connecting Theory and Practice in the Language Arts Classroom, University of Alberta, March 2002.

“Analyzing the Relationship Among Language, Culture, Learning, and Teaching,” Curriculum and Instruction in an Individual Teaching Specialty, Kamloops First Nations Graduate Cohort, Simon Fraser University, July 2000.

“Using Multiple Genres for Teaching Social Studies,” Langley Teacher Education Cohort, Simon Fraser University, 1995.

Consulting/Applied Experience

Coordinator

First Nations Educational Leadership Initiative.  Coordinated graduate and undergraduate facilitators in leadership, community building, and First Nations educational resource development, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, September 2002- April 2003.

Workshop Facilitator

Balanced Literacy– Howe Sound District, Vancouver Catholic School District, Invermere School District, Penticton School District, Kamloops School District, Chilliwack Christian Schools, Langley School District, Stein Valley First Nation School. January 1995 – October 2001.  Aboriginal and Multicultural Education – Literature Circles – Vancouver School District, April-May 2003.

Research Assistant

Early literacy study of the shared reading practices of parents and their four-year-old children, Fall 1999 – April 2000 (Drs. Jim Anderson, Jon Shapiro, Ann Anderson)

Faculty Advisor

Teacher Education Program, University of British Columbia, Fall 1999.  Supervised 15 pre-service teachers during their first school-based practicum.

School Based Coordinator

Otter Elementary, Langley, B. C., Simon Fraser University Teacher Education Program, Fall 1994 – June 1997 while simultaneously acting as a school associate for student teachers from Fall 1994 to June 1999.

Elementary Teacher

Classroom teacher, grades two to seven, School District #35 (Langley), 1989-2001.  Taught at Otter Demonstration School from 1994-99, where the commitment for all teachers was to engage in ongoing professional development, pilot innovative, yet thoughtful pedagogical and curricular approaches to education amongst each other, including between grade levels.  Teachers from throughout the district and province observed and analyzed practice in our classrooms on a constant and ongoing basis.  My area of expertise was the integration of language arts (guided reading, literature circles informed by response theory, vocabulary development), social studies, mathematics and science where applicable.  I also piloted language arts and mathematics programs, facilitating professional development workshops with district teachers and parents.

Publications

Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

van der Wey, D. (Forthcoming).  “Building Intragroup and Intergroup Coalitions in First Nations Graduate Cohorts.  Canadian Journal of Education Special Edition, “Coalition Work in Indigenous Educational Contexts.

Van der Wey, D. (Forthcoming)  Editorial. Canadian Journal of Education Special Edition, “Coalition Work in Indigenous Educational Contexts.”

van der Wey, D. (2005). “The Undergraduate Pre-Service Classroom as Site for Coalition Work        in First Nations Education.”  Conference Proceedings. Jean Barman Conference, University of

B. C. , Vancouver, B. C. March 18.

van der Wey, D. (2001). “Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting as Impetus for Meaningful Literacy Development”. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 25(1), 51-67.

van der Wey, D. (2001). “Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Overlapping Experiences as a Trigger for Meaningful Learning.” Te Rito o te Matauranga: Experiential Learning for the Third Millennium – Selected Papers from the Seventh Conference of the International Consortium for Experiential Learning, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, December 4-8, 2000, edited by N. Denton and R. Denton, James Henare Maori Research Centre, 1, 45-50.

van der Wey, D. (2002). “Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting: Novel Study and Anti-Racist Education in an Elementary School” in G. Chalmers and H. Gill’s report Educating Against Racism Through the Arts: Programs of Promise, Victoria: B. C. Ministry of Community, Aboriginal, and Women’s Services. Adapted from van der Wey, D. (2001) “Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting as Impetus for Meaningful Literacy Development.”

Sumara, D., Davis, B. & van der Wey, D. (1998)  “The Pleasure of Thinking,” Language Arts Journal, 76(2), 135-143.

Upcoming Presentations

van der Wey, D. “The University Classroom as Site for Building Coalitions Across Cultural Divides.”  Paper proposal submitted to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at the 2007 meeting in Chicago, Il.

van der Wey, D. &  Friedel, T.  “Unsettling a ‘Summit’ Approach to Social Justice in Educational Ethnography.”  Paper proposal submitted to the meeting of CAFÉ/CSSE for presentation at the 2007 meeting in Saskatoon, SK.

Foster, R., D. van der Wey.  “Coalition Work in Indigenous Educational Contexts.”  Symposium/panel to bring together contributors to the forthcoming special edition of the Canadian Journal of Education at CASEA/CSSE  at the 2007 Saskatoon, SK meeting.

van der Wey, D. & Friedel, T.  (2007).  “Tip of the Iceberg:  Exploring the Underlying Structure of Social Justice in Educational Ethnography.”  Paper Presentation, 3rd International Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference, Spokane, WA, March, 2007.

Conference Presentations

van der Wey, D.  (2007).  There is No Innocent Space: The Challenges of Building Coalitions in Pre-Service Teacher Education Classrooms.”  Paper Presentation, 4th International Conference on Teacher Education & Social Justice, Uinversity of Illinois-chicago, Il, January 13, 2007.

van der Wey, D., Friedel, T. & Spencer, B.  “Telling a Bigger Story: Representing Indigenous Ways of ‘Being’ and ‘Knowing’ Through Film.” Symposium Presentation, Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS),  CSSE, York University, Toronto, ON, May 30, 2006.

Spencer, B., Ellingson, C., Wallace, J. & van der Wey, D.  “Knowing Leadership.” Symposium Presentation, Canadian Association for Study of Educational Administration (CASEA), CSSE, York University, Toronto, ON, May 30, 2006.

van der Wey, D. “Honoring Research Participants and Research Intentions in a First Nations Context: Walking the Walk.” Invited panel presentation for Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education (CASWE) at American Educational Research Association Conference (AERA), San Francisco, April, 2006.

van der Wey, D., Friedel, T.,  & Pocklington, S. “If We Don’t Call it ‘Cross-Cultural Dialogue,’ What is it Going to Be Called?” Invited Panel Presentation for Phi Delta Kappa. University of Alberta, April 6, 2006.

van der Wey, D.  “Can We Know ‘Leadership’?” Symposium Presentation, Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration (CASAE), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), York University, Toronto, May, 2006.

Friedel, T., Pocklington, S. & van der Wey, D. “Re-envisioning ‘Fire and Ice’: Indigenous Perspectives on the Challenges of Teaching and Working Across Difference.”  Department of Educational Policy Studies Presentation, University of Alberta, March 17, 2006.

van der Wey, D., Daniels, L. “Illuminating Native Humanity Through Aboriginal Literature: Teacher Education and Professional Development Contexts.” Paper presentation. Western Canadian Association for Student Teaching (WestCAST), Vancouver, February 17, 2006.

van der Wey, D., Friedel, T. & Pocklington, S.  “Rivers of Hope/Seeds of Change: Coalition Building In Diverse University Classrooms.”  Paper Presentation. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Oahu, January 9, 2006.

van der Wey, D., “Coalition Work in First Nations Education.” One Vision—Many Voices Cross-Cultural Anti-Racism Education Conference, Univesity of Alberta, November 19, 2005.

van der Wey, D. & Daniels, L.  “Shedding Light on Native Ways of Being Through Aboriginal Literature.”  Sixth Native American Symposium, Durant, Oklahoma, November 11, 2005.

van der Wey, D., Friedel, T., Steinhauer, E., Bruno,  S. & Weber-Pillwax, C. “Beyond the Rhetoric: Representing and Communicating Varying Perspectives of Indigenous Knowledge.”

Symposium Presentation. Sixth Native American Symposium, Durant, Oklahoma, November 10, 2005.

van der Wey,  D. & Hardman, S.  “From the Depths of Silence.”  Indigenous Feminisms Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, August 24, 2005.

van der Wey, D.  Coalition Work as an Aspect of First Nations Cohort Membership.  Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education, CSSE, London, Ontario, May 29, 2005.

van der Wey, D. The University Classroom as Site for Coalition Work in First Nations Education.  Jean Barman Conference, University of B. C. , Vancouver, B. C. March 18, 2005.

van der Wey, D. Reflections on Indigenizing the Academy – Invited Panel Presentation. UBC Third Annual First Nations Graduate Student Symposium, University of B. C., Vancouver, B. C., March 19, 2005.

van der Wey, D. & Ponic, P. Walking the Walk: Considering the Parallels Between Emergent Research Design and First Nations and Feminist Worldviews.  International Insitute for Qualitative Methodology, Edmonton, Alberta, February 18, 2005.

van der Wey, D., Pidgeon, M., and Janvier, S.  Considering the Four R’s With/in Aboriginal Research Methodologies: Three Perspectives, Contexts, and Stages of Research – A Panel Presentation.  Department of Educational Studies Research Day, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. April 14 2003.

van der Wey, D. “The Literacy Text as Commonplace for Interpretation: Literary Anthropology as a Research Method with First Nations Learners.” Canadian Society for the

Study of Education (CSSE), Toronto, Ontario, May 25 2002.

van der Wey, D. “Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences as Impetus for Meaningful Learning,” Department of Educational Studies Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. May 2001.

van der Wey, D. “Exploring Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting as Impetus for Meaningful Learning.” Spring Wind Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. March 2001.

van der Wey, D. “Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Overlapping Experiences as a Trigger for Meaningful Learning.” International Consortium on Experiential Learning (ICEL) Auckland, New Zealand, December 2000.

Anderson, J., Anderson, A., Shapiro, J., Lynch, J. and van der Wey, D. “Fathers’ and Mothers’ Book Selection Preferences for Their Four-Year-Old Children.”  Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Edmonton, Alberta, May 2000.

Professional Activities

Co-Editor

van der Wey, D. & Foster, R.  Canadian Journal of Education, Special Edition, “Coalition Work in Indigenous Educational Contexts”, Forthcoming, June, 2007.

Reviewer

Canadian Journal of Education, Special Edition on Women and Girls in Education, September, 2006.

Exceptionality Education in Canada Journal, September, 2006.

Canadian Journal of Education, August, 2005.

Hawaii International Conference on Education, August, 2005.

Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003.

Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, May 2004.

Professional Leadership Activities

Research and Scholarship Committee, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 2004-2006.  Current Chair.

Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 2005-2006.

Ad hoc Graduate Studies Committee –“Comprehensive Exams” – Department of Educational Policy Studies, November, 2005 –present.

Admissions Committee, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 2005-2006.

Graduate Awards Committee, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 2004-2006.

Student Representative, Executive Committee, Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 2001-2003.

External Examiner

Sandra L. Umpleby “Crossing the Bridge: The Educational Leadership of First Nations Women.”  PhD Dissertation, University of Victoria, April 20, 2006.  Completion date is pending, awaiting revisions.

Supervision of and Committee Membership

Membership in the Academic Community

• American Educational Research Association (2006-Current)
• Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education (2005-Current)
• Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (2005 – Current)
• Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (2000 – Current)
• Canadian Society for the Study of Education (2000 – Current)

Service to the Community At Large

Advisory Team Member – Developing new First Peoples Language Arts 12 provincial course, First Nations Education Steering Committee and Ministry of Education, October 2006 – Current

Member Aboriginal Community Council, University College of Fraser Valley, September 2006 – Current

I wish to clarify the relationship between these three publications and explain the formatting and order.   The first listed is a much more fully developed revision of the second.  The third, an abridged version of the first listed, was prepared for community use.