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Program advances aboriginal learning
Education researcher Mark Fettes received nearly $1 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to lead a groundbreaking research project that promises to help aboriginal youth attain greater academic, social and economic success. A member of SFU’s Imaginative Education Research Group, Fettes will work with a team of SFU researchers, graduate students, First Nations communities and regional school districts to apply innovative, imagination-based teaching strategies in classrooms with large numbers of aboriginal students. Fettes, an expert on linguistic ecology, studies how language and culture influence the way people imagine, and how imagination is implicated in learning, relationship-building and community identification. He attributes the lackluster results of conventional learning strategies in an aboriginal setting to their tacit assumption of students’ identity within the politically and economically dominant culture. For more information
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