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Mark Fettes
Associate Dean, Academic and Faculty Development
Associate Director, IERG
Dr. Fettes was first drawn to education through his work with First Nations organizations around issues of language maintenance and revitalization, which stemmed in turn from his long-standing involvement with the international language Esperanto. This has led him to focus his scholarship and teaching on how individuals, schools and communities—Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike—can build flourishing relationships embedded in land, culture and community.
A long-term Director of SFU's Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture and Education, he has worked with teachers at all levels of the formal education system with a focus on helping them find more imaginative and engaging ways of teaching the mainstream curriculum.
He has also been involved in several community-based research projects focused on school district-First Nation partnerships and decolonizing place-based education. Internationally, he is known for his work on approaches to language policy and planning that go beyond the usual state-centric assumptions of the field.
school Supervision Status: Not Accepting New Students
Research
Keywords
place-based education; language revitalization; Esperanto studies; imaginative education; eco-social-cultural change
Supervisory Experience
Doctoral Supervision
- Gagnon, Lianne (EdD, 2025), Trees, dreams, and lake water: a postsecondary educator's journey towards living in Indigenous sovereignty
- Grass, Starleigh Joanne (PhD, 2025), Singing into the machine: Indigenous futurisms and the hermeneutics of Indigenous identity and agency in educational institutions
- Roze des Ordones, Daniella Maria (PhD, 2025), Ecopsychology-informed land-guided education for co-liberation and collective flourishing
- Chahal, Rajvinder Kaur (EdD, 2024), Crafting a safe ethical space in the social work classroom
- Griffith-Zahner, Nancy (EdD, 2023), A Stranger on Indigenous Land: Examining the Ecology of Teaching French on Indigenous Territory
- Ho, Yi Chien Jade (PhD, 2023), Radical pedagogy of place: A decolonial feminist narrative exploration of returning, organizing, and resisting
- Behrisch, Tanya, (PhD, 2022), Making friends with strangeness: Practices of mastery within an ontology of abundance
- Bains, Satwinder Kaur, (PhD, 2019), Language planning and policy in the Punjab education system: A critical analysis
- Turner, Shirley Rochelle (PhD, 2016), The Garden as Co-Teacher: Renewing, Regenerating, Reconnecting
- Stewart, Kym (PhD, 2014), Teaching the media with Mouse Woman: Adventures in Imaginative Education
- Zawaduk, Cheryl Ann (EdD, 2011), It takes a village: rural nursing preceptorships as cultural mediation
- Chodakowski, Anne (PhD, 2009), Teaching Made Wonderful: Redesigning Teacher Education with Imagination in Mind
- McKenzie, Marcia Diane (PhD, 2004), Parrots and butterflies : students as the subjects of socio-ecological education
Master's Supervision
- Vandergugten, Benjamin (MA, 2025), The generative discovery of purpose: a grounded theory study of how purpose develops in students from an independent Christian high school
- Atkinson, Alison Elisabeth (MA, 2015), The things we carry: the hermeneutics of moral education and teaching high school English
- Chaney, Nadia (MA, 2012), What matters: teaching and metaphor
- Derby, Michael Whitefield (MA, 2012), Education and the mycelial matrix of critical ecohermeneutics, or eat and be eaten, mean and be meaning
- Moody, Shona (MA, 2005), SLOPE - A metaphor-based strategy formation tool