Faculty Resources

The Department IRC conducted a survey of Department practices, the results of the survey and recommendtions are summarized here.

• IRC Curriculum Survey Results

Recognizing that there are debates on who/how should be Indigenizing Course content (Pidgeon, 2016), the need for change in educational structures and methods is necessary for Reconciliation.

In Spring 2023, the SFU Library announced the development of the new space in the library (4th floor, Belzberg) for the  SFU Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre. The establishment and usage of the Resource Centre are important steps on the journey of Reconciliation. 

• New SFU Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre Librarian ready to help bring Indigenous knowledge into the classroom | SFU Library
• Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre: Home | SFU Library
• Traditional territories: SFU's land acknowledgements | SFU Library
• Decolonizing our minds | SFU Library
• Indigenizing curriculum | SFU Library
• Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy | SFU Library
• Respectful research | SFU Library

There are many opportunities to learn about the issues through workshop series, as well as variety of online resources for Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum. Some resources towards this work can be found below.

• More than a checklist: Meaningful Indigenous inclusion in Higher Education. (Pidgeon, 2016)
• Becoming the Imperfect Friend: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Contemplative Pathways to Healing and Reconciliation in Higher Education (Findlay, 2023)
• Looking Back to the Potlatch as a Guide to Truth, Reconciliation, and Transformative Learning (Wilson, Nelson-Moody ((Tawx'sin Yexwulla), 2019)
• Embodying decoloniality: Indigenizing curriculum and pedagogy. (Fellner, 2018)
• Indigenizing and Decolonizing the Teaching of Psychology: Reflections on the Role of the Non-Indigenous Ally (Schmidt, 2018)
• Towards Reconciliation: Philanthropy, animal-human relationships, and community engaged learning  (Kincaid, Livingstone, Li, et al., 2022)
• Interview with a Psychologist: Representing Marginalized Psychologists and Diversity Science in Psychology Coursework (Fish J., 2022)
• Does the American Psychological Association’s Code of Ethics work for us? (Morse & Blume, 2013)
  
• The Ethical Space of Engagement (Ermine, 2007)
• The Privilege of Not Walking Away: Indigenous Women’s Perspectives of Reconciliation in the Academy (Ward, Gaudet, McGuire-Adams, 2021)
• Towards Indigenizing university policy: kahwe-iyinwast kihci-kiskinwahamātowikkamikohn wiyāsiwacikanisa (Sasakamoose & Pete, 2015)
• 100 ways to Indigenize and decolonize academic programs and courses -- University of Regina (Pete) 
• Indigenous Mentorship in the Health Sciences: Actions and Approaches of Mentors (Murry , Barnabe, Foster , Taylor, Atay, Henderson, & Crowshoe, 2022)
• Reconciliation at RRU: Transforming Vertically and Horizontally
• BC Campus Indigenization Project: Learning guides for:  a) Foundations,  b) Teachers and Instructors,  c) Front Line Staff, Advisors, and Student Services,  d) Leaders and Administrators, e)  Curriculum Developers,  f) Researchers
• Justice Institute of Canada: Indigenization of the Curriculum
• UBC's Xwi7xwa Library
• Aboriginal Policy and Practice Framework in British Columbia
  

• Beyond trauma: Decolonizing understandings of loss and healing in the Indian Residential School system of Canada (Burrage, Momper, Gone, 2021)
• Under the Rattlesnake: Cherokee Health and Resiliency. (Lefler, 2009). 

Video resources:

• Cultural Safety Education as the Blueprint for Reconciliation | Len Pierre | TEDxSFU (posted March 2022)
• OISE: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Online Course -- Modules & Resources; ABED 101
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• Transforming Teaching and Learning about American Indians: 5 Stephanie Fryberg -- posted Nov 9, 2018

A few more general resourses that may be of interest with regard to considerations of equity/diversity/inclusion/justitice/decolonizing psychology, curriculum, and syllabi:

• Decolonizing the university in an era of Truth and Reconciliation (a series of articles in Academic Affairs, 2017)
  
• Decolonizing psychology curriculum: Video & Resources (Mena, 2021, presented at Columbia University)
• Rethinking the Course Syllabus: Considerations for Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (Fuentes, Zalaya, & Madsen, 2020)
• The public psychology for liberation training model: A call to transform the discipline (Neville, Ruedas-Gracia, Lee, Ogunfemi, Maghsoodi, Mosley, LaFromboise, & Fine, 2021) 
• Person–Environment Fit and Retention of Racially Minoritized College Students: Recommendations for Faculty, Support Staff, and Administrators (Ajayi, A.A.; Mitchell, L.L.; Nelson, S.C.; Fish, J.; Peissig, L.H.M.; Causadias, J.M.; Syed, M., 2021)
• Introducing Multiculturalism and Intersectionality into the Psychology Curriculum

Foundations for a decolonial big data psychology (Montiel & Uyheng, 2021)