Research Interests and Recent Publications

(Last revised Sept. 24, 2004)

van der Wey, Dolores

Office: Education North 7-133G
Telephone: 492-0551
Fax: 492-2024
E-Mail: doloresv@ualberta.ca

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Cohort and cultural border crossing contexts with particular focus on Indigenous perspectives drawing upon both literary genres and works of theories
• anthropology of education
• literacy
• curriculum and instruction
• elementary teacher education

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

• van der Wey, D. (2001). "Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting as Impetus for Meaningful Literacy Development". Canadian Journal of Native Education, 25(1), 51-67.

• van der Wey, D. (2001). "Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Overlapping Experiences as a Trigger for Meaningful Learning". Te Rito o te Matauranga: Experiential Learning for the Third Millennium - Selected Papers from the Seventh Conference of the International Consortium for Experiential Learning, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, December 4-8, 2000, edited by N. Denton and R. Denton, James Henare Maori Research Centre, 1, 45-50.

• van der Wey, D. (2002). "Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting: Novel Study and Anti-Racist Education in an Elementary School" in G. Chalmers and H. Gill's report Educating Against Racism Through the Arts: Programs of Promise, Victoria: B. C. Ministry of Community, Aboriginal, and Women's Services. Adapted from van der Wey, D. (2001) "Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting as Impetus for Meaningful Literacy Development."

• Sumara, D., Davis, B. & van der Wey, D. (1998) "The Pleasure of Thinking," Language Arts Journal, 76(2), 135-143.

Conference Presentations

• van der Wey, D., Pidgeon, M., and Janvier, S. "Considering the Four R's With/in Aboriginal Research Methodologies: Three Perspectives, Contexts, and Stages of Research" - A Panel Presentation. Department of Educational Studies Research Day, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. April 14 2003.

• van der Wey, D. The Literacy Text as Commonplace for Interpretation: Literary Anthropology as a Research Method with First Nations Learners. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Toronto, Ontario, May 25 2002.

• van der Wey, D. Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Experiences as Impetus for Meaningful Learning, Department of Educational Studies Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. May 2001.

• van der Wey, D. Exploring Serendipitous Experiences in a First Nations Setting as Impetus for Meaningful Learning. Spring Wind Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. March 2001.

• van der Wey, D. Exploring Multiple Serendipitous Overlapping Experiences as a Trigger for Meaningful Learning. International Consortium on Experiential Learning (ICEL) Auckland, New Zealand, December 2000.

• Anderson, J., Anderson, A., Shapiro, J., Lynch, J. and van der Wey, D. Fathers' and Mothers' Book Selection Preferences for Their Four-Year-Old Children. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Edmonton, Alberta, May 2000.

Guest Lectures

• "Diversity and Children's Literature: Bringing Social Justice Issues to Life," Language and Literacy, University of British Columbia, March 2004.

• "Examining Aboriginal History Through Literature," History of First Nations Schooling, University of British Columbia, July 2003.

• "Analyzing First Nations Issues Through the Literary Text," Critical Analysis of Education, University of British Columbia, March 2003

• "Participatory Action Research and the Literary Text," Introduction to Methods and issues in First Nations Research, University of British Columbia, October 2002.

• "Tribal Wisdom: Critiquing Aboriginal Notions of Community from Western and Indigenous Perspectives," Understanding and Creating Community in Adult Education, University of British Columbia, August 2002.

• "Exploring Aboriginal Issues Through Literature with Non-Aboriginal Children and Aboriginal Adult Learners," Center for Literacy, University of Alberta, March 2002

• "First Nations Perspectives in Curriculum Development," Early Literacy Development, University of Alberta, March 2002.

• "First Nations Issues and the Literary Text," Connecting Theory and Practice in the Language Arts Classroom, University of Alberta, March 2002.

• "Analyzing the Relationship Among Language, Culture, Learning, and Teaching," Curriculum and Instruction in an Individual Teaching Specialty, Kamloops First Nations Graduate Cohort, Simon Fraser University, July 2000.