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Kwesi Yaro

Assistant Professor

Prior to joining University of Alberta, Dr. Yaro taught both elementary and secondary mathematics methodology courses as well as supervised teacher candidates on teaching practice within UBC’s Teacher Education Program.

Mathematics Education: Ways of Teaching & Learning of Mathematics Immigrant Parents and Mathematics Learning Place-Based Mathematics Pedagogies Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Rural Contexts Mathematics and Social Justice Mathematics and Race African Ways of Knowing Culturally Responsive Education

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Rafael Pellizzer Soares

Email: pellizze@ualberta.ca

Courses ... EDEL 415 - Issues in Elementary Mathematics Education ... Focus is on current issues in mathematics education related to teacher and student roles, mathematical tasks and tools, and the learning environment.

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Marc Higgins

Associate Professor

Email: marc1@ualberta.ca

Phone: (780) 492-4676

Marc Higgins' research work is an extension of a longstanding involvement with, in, and across the fields of Indigenous education, science education, and media-technology education. ... Having taken him from Canadian coast (East), to coast (North), to coast (West), this curricular development and pedagogical delivery of inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural educational programming took place in over 50 reserve and urban Aboriginal communities with Ottawa-based, national STEM education not-for-profit organization Actua.

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Rebecca Collins

Email: rmcollin@ualberta.ca

This course examines Alberta's Drama curriculum and integrates theory, research and practice in becoming a drama educator in secondary schools. ... Students will learn through dramatic performance and will demonstrate interpersonal teaching competencies in classroom settings.

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Megan Tipler

GTA Principal Instructor
PhD Student

Email: tipler@ualberta.ca

This course is designed to support students who are seeking spaces to rethink assessment from Indigenous, narrative, and relational perspectives. ... The course explores Anishinaabe and Nehiway concepts that connect with ways of knowing, being, doing, and relating with children to support their life-long journey of pimatisiwin (walking in a good way, living a good life).

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Alexandra Fidyk

Professor

Email: fidyk@ualberta.ca

Phone: (780) 492-3666

Here she taught a doctoral research series including research process, scholarly writing, and dissertation preparation in addition to courses in Jungian Psychology. ... As a Jungian somatic psychotherapist, she integrates both modalities along with contemplative practices rooted in Zen & Theravada Buddhism, which began thirty years ago when she taught in Japan.

Transdisciplinary Studies Trauma Studies Analytical Psychology Depth Psychology Jungian Studies Post-Jungian Studies Archetypal Pedagogy Mythopoetic Imaginal Paradigm Buddhist thought Process Philosophy Hermeneutics Poetic Inquiry Creation-centred Métissage Life Writing Forms of Inquiry: somatic contemplative relational ecological nature place and creation-centred practices Curriculum Studies Teacher Education Expressive Arts & Somatic Therapies

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Claudia Eppert

Professor

Email: eppert@ualberta.ca

Phone: (780) 492-4980

Before moving to the University of Alberta, Dr. Eppert was assistant/associate professor at Louisiana State University where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in curriculum theory and English language arts education.

Curriculum Studies English Language Arts Philosophy of Education Literary/Cultural Studies in Education Witness/Trauma/Remembrance Studies Contemplative/Mindfulness/Holistic Education Critical Pedagogy

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Ava Becker

Assistant Professor

Email: abecker@ualberta.ca

My name is Ava Becker and I’m an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. ... My research interests and collaborations have revolved largely around my abiding interest in the intersections of language, migration, and trauma.

The lived experience of language language and trauma multimodality plurilingualism language ideology qualitative methods language socialization discourse analysis

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Deborah Schamuhn Kirk

Email: schamuhn@ualberta.ca

This course examines Alberta's English Language Arts curriculum and integrates theory, research and practice in becoming an English language arts educator in secondary schools. ... Students will learn through immersive engagement in literacy practices and will demonstrate interpersonal teaching competencies in classroom settings.

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Emile Marc Moacdieh

Email: moacdieh@ualberta.ca

EDSE 355 - Introduction to Curriculum and Teaching in Secondary School Science (Major) ... This course examines the integration of theory, research, and practice in secondary school science education.

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Sean Lessard

Associate Professor

Email: slessard@ualberta.ca

Sean is a former youth worker, teacher and high school guidance counsellor. ... He is known for his award winning work alongside indigenous youth and communities in the development of innovative educational programming and in particular Indigenous youth empowerment.

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Diane Conrad

Professor

Email: dhconrad@ualberta.ca

Phone: (780) 492-5870

She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (Playwriting) at the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Ottawa with drama as her major teaching subject.

applied theatre drama education