Leadership in Indigenous Initiatives

Goal

The Faculty of Education will continue to advance Indigenous education through the creation of intentional and sustained opportunities for faculty, staff and students to understand the truth of our historical and contemporary relationships with Indigenous peoples within and beyond our Treaty territory, and to consider the ways in which we must work relationally toward reconciliation.

Objectives:

• Create clear Faculty-wide administrative processes and educational opportunities to support Indigenous initiatives and collaborations.
• Increase support for and coordination of Indigenous initiatives across the Faculty through the creation of a leadership position.
• Provide support for ethically connecting and collaborating with Indigenous peoples and communities, including knowledge keepers, elders, artists, and storytellers.
• Through a continual process of curriculum mapping, ensure that required education courses in the undergraduate program make explicit their alignment with Teacher Quality Standard 5: Applying Foundational knowledge about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.
• Explore ways to support students in translating into educational practice/praxis the foundational knowledge offered in EDU 211.
• Initiate a review of Faculty spaces to determine the extent to which they might better reflect Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Following this review, create a strategy to implement space recommendations.
• Expand our efforts to recruit and retain Indigenous faculty, staff, and students in undergraduate and graduate programs.