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Mark Fettes
Professor
Director, Centre for Imagination in Research, Culture & Education (CIRCE)
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
Upcoming Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.