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Indigenous Programs & Courses

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Program Type Course
University Preparation Indigenous University Preparation Program (IUPP)
The Indigenous University Preparation Program (IUPP) at Simon Fraser University helps Indigenous learners prepare and transition to undergraduate studies. Our program offers first-year academic credit courses that integrate humanities and social sciences with Indigenous perspectives
Undergraduate Studies EDUC 311: Foundations in Indigenous Education, Language, and Culture
An introduction to Indigenous education in Canada and BC. There will be a critical examination of historical and contemporary issues in education and an exploration of culturally based Indigenous education grounded in Indigenous philosophies.
Teacher Education Indigenous Perspectives Teacher Education Module (IPTEM)
The IPTEM module within the Professional Development Program (PDP) focuses on Indigenizing the curriculum, through the inclusion of Indigenous worldviews, knowledge and perspectives and increase awareness of colonizing behaviors and patterns.
Graduate Studies Educational Leadership: Leading for Educational Change in the Yukon, EdD (2022)
This doctoral program provides provides a blend of rigorous coursework and original research that meets the needs of educators who occupy positions of influence in schools, colleges, universities and health and community services. Students will focus on integrating education and leadership theory with practice and drawing on the Yukon’s unique socio-political-cultural-environmental context, preparing them to understand the current educational landscape, think for change, and enact change is fundamental to the program’s intent.

PAST PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES 

Graduate Diplomas in Education

  • Indigenous Education: Wholistic Teachings and Transformative Pedagogies, GDE (Fall 2023) 
    This Indigenous Education themed Graduate Diploma in Education was developed in consultation with Dr. Vicki Kelly, Dr. Paula Rosehart, and members of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).
  • Indigenous Education: Education for Reconciliation, GDE (Fall 2017)

Master's Degrees

  • Educational Practice: Indigenous Pedagogy and Indigenous Inquiry, MEd (Fall 2025) 
    Graduates of the GDE in Indigenous Education: Wholistic Teachings and Transformative Pedagogies took a deeper dive into educational theory, research and practice within the context of wholistic participatory pedagogical pathways and Indigenous Inquiry. This program took place on the traditional unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, on which SFU Burnaby is located.
  • Educational Leadership: Indigenous Resurgence, MEd (Fall 2022) 
    This Master of Education program was collaboratively developed by Simon Fraser University, the Lower Similkameen Indian Band and Nicola Valley Institute Of Technology and took place on the traditional unceded territories of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band (Cawston, B.C.).
  • Educational Practice: Indigenous Theme, MEd (Fall 2019) 
  • Curriculum & Instruction: Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, MEd (Fall 2019)
    North Vancouver, B.C.  
  • Curriculum & Instruction: Imagination and Cultural Inclusion, MEd (Fall 2011) 
    Prince Rupert and Terrace, B.C.
  • Curriculum & Instruction: Indigenous Education - Foundations in Diversity Inclusion, MEd (Summer 2008)
    Burnaby, B.C. 
  • Curriculum & Instruction: Northern Issues – Aboriginal, MEd (Fall 2005)
    Prince George, B.C. 
  • Curriculum & Instruction: Imagination and Cultural Inclusion, MEd (Spring 2005) 
    Haida Gwaii / Prince Rupert, B.C.

Doctoral Degrees

  • Culturally Inclusive Place-Based Education, EdD (Summer 2015)

CONTACT US

Contact the Office of Indigenous Education (ed_indigenous@sfu.ca) for information, support and services.

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