Faculty
Research Interests
Dr. Mark Fettes
Associate Professor
  • language maintenance and revitalization
  • cultural diversity and intercultural communication
  • management of multilingualism
Dr. Alanaise Ferguson
Associate Professor
  • Indigenous psychology
  • psychological practice in the areas of identity reclamation, collective healing and restitution
  • Indigenous language in the practice of family and group counselling
  • Indigenous research methods
  • decolonizing mental health practices
Dr. Vicki Kelly
Associate Professor
  • Indigenous epistemologies
  • knowledge practices and pedagogies
  • education for reconciliation and healing
  • art as an indigenous knowledge practice and as a site for activism
  • Indigeneity and Indigenous resurgence
  • Integration of Indigenous knowledge practices and pedagogies in ecological education
  • the role of the arts in human development
  • Métissage as inquiry and curriculum
  • place-based performance and art as inquiry
Dr. Sara Davison
Assistant Professor
  • Indigenous communities
  • English language arts
Dr. Margaret MacDonald
Associate Professor
  • early childhood education
  • pedagogical documentation
  • intergenerational teaching and learning
  • formative assessment
  • heritage language revitalization
  • responsive curriculum development
Dr. Michelle Pidgeon
Professor
  • higher education
  • student affairs and services
  • recruitment and retention
  • Indigenous research methodologies
  • research ethics
Dr. Paula Rosehart
Limited-term Lecturer
  • practitioner inquiry
  • teacher education
  • curriculum design
  • arts-based research
  • somatics
  • transformative learning
Dr. Michèle Schmidt
Associate Professor
  • Aboriginal university preparaton program evaluation
  • parenting & school
  • accountability and assessment in British Columbia schools
Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee
Assistant Professor
  • children's moral
  • social development and reasoning
  • critical and social justice pedagogy
  • digital media
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