Indigenous Education & Research

RESEARCH

Selected Alumni Theses Related to Indigenous Education

PhD

• 2024-02-40 - Poh Tan, Extending scientific literacy through Indigenous Hawaiian epistemology: Navigating scientific seas with hula
• 2023-06-05 - Hannah Meghan Celinski, A thousand steps from one: Towards decolonizing and Indigenizing pedagogy in higher education
• 2022-05-04 - Kristy Dellebuur O’Connor, Ethical wayfinding in decolonizing child and youth care education
• 2021-11-19 - Omar Nunez Mendez, Indigenous children defy colonialism through art in a Zapotec community of Oaxaca, Mexico
• 2020-07-16 - Maria Elisa Lacerda Vandenborn, Apoema: Exploring a communally constituted conception of selfhood approach to child welfare through an Indigenous Family Group Conferencing program
• 2019-09-20 - April (Blackbird) Russell, The dance of utter darkness: Pedagogy for the outsider
• 2019-07-30 - Ciara Morgan-Fier, Weaving with Trickster: Indigenous students making our place in science
• 2018-01-11 - Shannon Leddy, Starting from now, learning to see: Introducing pre-service teachers to the process of Indigenous education through a phenomenological art inquiry
• 2017-01-19 - m d caroline lefebvre, shamanic historical consciousness: retu(r)ning to the Ellemental as an indigenous education
• 2009 - Barbara Harris, Aboriginal educators' experiences as learners and as teachers in schools of social work
• 2008 - Kanwal Neel, Numeracy in Haida Gwaii, BC: Connecting community, pedagogy, and epistemology
• 2003 - Melody Martin, Native Women's Studies: Dialoguing with Community, with Academia and with Feminism
• 2002 - Ethel B. Gardiner, Tset hikwstexw te sqwelteltset, we hold our language high : the meaning of Halqemelem language renewal in the everyday lives of Sto:lo people
• 2002 - Richard Vedan, How do we forgive our fathers : angry/violent aboriginal/First Nations men's experiences with social worker
• 1997 - Jo-Ann Archibald, Coyote learns to make a story basket: the place of First Nations stories in education

EdD

• 2023-07-28 - Nancy Griffith-Zahner, A Stranger on Indigenous Land: Examining the Ecology of Teaching French on Indigenous Territory
• 2022-10-04 - Caitlin Hartnett, Reflecting with nettle, learning with Awi'nakola: Teachings from the community at Tsaxis, Kwakwaka'wakw territory
• 2022-08-25 - Louise Lacerte, Looking at the Nedut'en and Wetsuwet'en Balhats Protocols
• 2022-05-20 - Katherine Mulski, Thriving: Weaving professional and personal narratives as an educator
• 2022-01-21 - Debbie Leighton-Stephens, Adaawgm Ts'msyen int suwilaay'magm: Teachings from our Ts'msyen narratives
• 2022-01-18 - Joanna Fraser, Earth dance and fire song: A journey towards transformative reconciliation in nursing education
• 2018-12-03 - Laurie Harding, What's the harm? Examining the stereotyping of Indigenous Peoples in health systems
• 2018-11-01 - Cheryl Ward, Teaching about race and racism in the classroom: Managing the Indigenous elephant in the room
• 2017-01-25 - Ann Wilson, Joining Learning and Making: A Practitioner’s Retrospective Auto/biographical Account of How Inquiry Can Contribute to Social Justice Efforts in a Community
• 2016-11-30 - Deborah Anne Jacobs, Snítelwet iy Siyámiya, Skwxwú7mesh Nách’en: Xwech’shí7 tlʼa Nexwníneẁ iy Sneẁíyelh Squamish Praxis the interspace of Upbringing and the Teachings

MA

• 2023-07-31 - Dvorah Silverman, The settler feminist problem: Reconciliation workshops in feminist non-profit organizations
• 2022-08-29 - Joe Tobin, Counselling & traditional Indigenous practices: Examining practitioner enabling processes
• 2021-08-26 - Nicole Karr, It's just so powerful to have somebody know you…: The experiences of Indigenous youth and non-Indigenous educators in teacher-student relationships
• 2020-04-23 - Halimah Beaulieu, The understated power of reading contemporary Indigenous literature in Canada, a white supremacist nation
• 2019-07-26 - Katrina Smeja, Weaving narrative therapy into a decolonizing approach to counselling: A collaborative narrative exploration of Indigenous healing in Canada
• 2019-05 - Barbara Wilson, DamX̱an gud.ad t’alang hllG̱ang.gulX̱ads Gina Tllgaay (Working Together to Make It a Better World)
• 2017-09-11 - Cheryl Inkster, Exploring the relocation experiences of female indigenous youth in foster care through storywork

MEd

• 2024-07-27 - Shannon Peltier, Decolonizing education by implementing Indigenous curated place-based learning: the benefits and the barriers
• 2024-07-27 - Danielle Saddleman, and Kelly Terbasket, syilx leadership rooted in isqilxʷcawtet
• 2024-07-27 - Anna Brown, and Rachel Marchand, Decolonizing and revitalizing academic advising in the Canadian post-secondary school system to improve Indigenous student success
• 2024-07-27 - Marion Louie, and Catrina Terbasket, Learning from hereditary Similkameen leadership: cultural leadership knowledge, and heritage for the future
• 2024-07-27 - John Allison, Shauntelle Flooren, and Stuart Krestell, Exploring the experiences of non-Indigenous teachers in First Nation Band schools
• 2024-07-27 - Tiinesha Begaye, Janessa Lambert, Rheana Marchand, and Lauren Terbasket, The incorporation of sməlqmix-syilx c̓apti̓kʷɬ, sm'im'a̓y and nsyilxcən language in land governance, protection, and management

Alumni Publications

• Peter Cole, PhD (2000), First Peoples knowings as legitimate discourse in education: coming home to the village