Teaching
First, remember that you are not responsible for wrongs committed before you were born, but you can’t escape the legacy of those wrongs.
You need to understand some history in order to understand your current position in the world and other people’s perceptions of you.
And you are responsible for what you do now.
- Barbara Thomas, 2001
University of Alberta
Department Education Policy Studies
Undergraduate Courses
2019-2020 (F, W) EDPS 432 The Education of Native Peoples in Canada: An Historical Study
2017-2018 (F, W) EDPS 432 The Education of Native Peoples in Canada: An Historical Study
2012 (F) EDPS 432 The Education of Native Peoples in Canada: A Historical Study
2006 (F) EDPS 474 Contemporary Issues in Native Education
2013-2020 (25 sections) (F, W, S) EDU 211* Aboriginal Education and the Context for Professional and Personal Engagement
*EDU 211, which I co-authored & developed, is the first compulsory Aboriginal Education course in the province of Alberta. In this course, pre-service teachers continue to develop their knowledge of Aboriginal peoples’ histories, educational experiences, and knowledge systems, and further develop an understanding of the implications of this knowledge in relation to the professional roles and obligations for teachers. Pre-service teachers engage in a learning process of self-and-other awareness, and are supported by Aboriginal educators, faculty members, and Elders.
Graduate Courses
2020 (F) EDPS 535 Indigenous Research Methodology
2020 (W) EDPS 539 Indigenous Language Revitalization
2017-2018 (W) EDPS 575 Indigenous Knowledge and Anti-Racist Education
2013 (W) EDPS 539 Revitalizing Indigenous Language
2013 (W) EDPS 538 From Oral Traditions to Written Text
2012 (W) EDPS 501 Mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge
2012 (W) EDPS *Optional Pre-Candidacy Doctoral Seminar
2012 (S) EDPS 537 Issues in First Nations Education
2012 (F) EDPS 535 Indigenous Research Methodology
2012 (F) EDPS 606 Indigenous Pedagogical Approaches in the School System (Ind. Study)
2012 (F) EDPS 606 Indigenous Research Methodologies & Indigenous Knowledge Transfer (Ind. Study)
2012 (W) EDPS 501 (575) Indigenous Knowledge and Anti-Racist Education
2011 (W) EDPS 501 (575) Indigenous Knowledge and Anti-Racist Education
2016 (W) EDPS 900 EDPS Graduate Capping
2015 (W) EDPS 900 EDPS Graduate Capping
2012 (W) EDPS 900 EDPS Graduate Capping
As of 2021, 29 sections of 3 undergraduate courses and 13 sections of 7 graduate courses: 42 classes total have been taught.
Wabanaki Women’s Knowledge
As Native people we have to think about white people every day and white people don’t ever have to think about us.
- Ssipsis, Penobscot Elder/Scholar
Trying to change the world without changing our minds is like trying to clean the dirty face in the mirror by scrubbing the glass.
- Tulko (2003)