Aboriginal Education Research Forum 2017

• Elder Myra Laramee

• Acknowledgement of the Bundle for the Canadian Symposium on Indigenous Teacher Education  (CSITE)
• Opening song by Carl Stone

Welcoming Remarks

Keynote Speaker

• Dr.Chantal Fiola

• Lived Experiences: Stories from Maple Ridge, B.C. (Clayton Maitland & Elder Lekeyten)
• Action and interaction: Cree language concepts in teaching and learning (Dr. Linda Goulet & Keith Goulet)
• Theatre Education and Seven Grandfather Teachings (David Anderson & Angela Wolfe-UCN)
• Rooster Town: Métis people experiences with displacement (now where Winnipeg’s Grant Park Mall is Located) (Lawrie Barkwell)
• Indigenous Art Education Workshops at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Dr. Joanna Black, Leah Fontaine & Allison Moore)
• Bringing Truth and Reconciliation into Focus for Educators at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Mireille Lamontagne & Dr. Karine Duhamel)
• Deepening our Collective Understanding: Strengthening Aboriginal Teacher Education Programs (Chris Hachkowski)
• Indigenous ways of Knowing: Revisiting and Utilizing Indigenous Knowledge and traditions in meaningful mathematics and science education (Dr. Anthony N. Ezeife)
• 3Rs or maybe 4, Elder Sharing (Elder Don Robertson)
• Dialogue for Truth and Reconciliation (Catherine Neumann, Ph.D.)

• “They put them there for you”: Mazinaabikiniganan as sustainable knowledge (Melissa Twance)
• Blending Identities: Exploring the Lived-Experiences of First Nations Mothers as Students (Robyn Rowe)
• Incorporating Mental Health and Wellness into Indigenous Teacher Education – NITEP’s Holistic Model (Jessica LaRochelle)
• Aboriginal Student Experiences: A Policy Context (Lorenzo Cherubini)
• Drum, Story and Song Revitalization (Anna-Leah King)
• Nikanaptaq: Dukehs, awakening our indignity (Allan Sabattis-Atwin)
• Social Inequity and Indigenous Education: Working Within and Against the System (Joel Boyce)
• Elder Sharing with Elder George Fleury
• Indigenous Knowledge Practices as Artful Pedagogy (Dr. Vicky Kelly)
• Cultural Cross Roads Spence Family History-Story: Lost Generations (Kathy Mallett)

• Journey of Indigenous Educational Dawn Breakers: Indigenous Instructors and Professors (James Shawana)
• University of Saskatchewan Indigenous Students Perceptions of the Justice System (Dr. John G. Hansen)
• Sasipihkeyihtamowin: (re) Storying the Indigenous Feminine in an age of reconciliation (Dr. Margaret Kress)
• I am a Teacher, but am I also an ally? (Jennifer Bell)
• Mino Bimaadiziwin and community-led applied education (Shirley Thompson)
• Building Strong Relationships with Indigenous Students: Classroom Stories (Tania Munroe)
• Topic: Citizenship Learning, Participatory Democracy and Micro-Financing – an –anti-colonial microcredit program: The case of Grameen Bank’s Peer-Lending System in Bangladesh. Application to Canadian Indigenous people’s experiences (Dr. Kazi Abdur Rouf)
• Creating a narrative through art that uses Indigenous Methodologies, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s “94 Calls to Action” (Leah Fontaine)
• Elder Sharing - TBA
• Elder Sharing Session (Elder John Martin)

• Dr. Laara Fitznor

(CSITE) Award Acknowledgement by Dr. Frank Deer
Recipient: Dr. Yatta Kanu

Keynote Speaker    

• Jean Paul Restoule, PhD

• Engaging with Indigenous Spirituality in Research and Methodologies (Eileen Clearsky & Ixchel Bennett)
• Journey of Indigenous Scholars in Collaboration: Travel Study Peru (Dr. Laara Fitznor, Dr. Jose Zarate & Dr. Margaret Kress)
• Cultural Authenticity: What the Anishinaabe Life Model tells us about Ojibwe Values (Albert McLeod & Roger Roulette)
• Indigenous university students: What can Big Data tell us about their academic choices and outcomes? (Dr. Lori Wallace, Dr. Rod Lastra & Yi (Jack) Shen)
• Showing & Telling the Story of Nikis: Cree Story Telling Strategies in Post-Secondary Classrooms (Dr. Brenda Wastasecoot)
• Indigenous Research Methodologies: Framing Educational Technology Research in Bunibonibee Cree Nation (Ben Akoh, & Dr. Marlene Atleo)
• Embodying multi-dimensional forms of art as a pedagogical approach to Strengthening individual and Cultural learning (Dustin brass, Dr. Linda Goulet & Shane Quewezance)
• Embedding Sustainable Indigenous Wisdom: Minimizing Teacher Candidate Resistance (Dr. Yatta Kanu)
• Small but Mighty; Challenges and Opportunities in Indigenous Teacher Education (Angela Wolfe – U of A)

• Grandparents Bannock and Tea Circle
  Hosted by Kathy Mallett

• Sharing experiences as a student advisor and sharing and celebrating our students (Elder Carl Stone)
• Reconciliation in Manitoba Faculties of Education (Catherine Draper)
• Education for Social and economic development: the case of First Nations in Canada (Martha Burkle)
• Building on Indigenous Capacity: Opportunities for Self-Determined Development in First Nation Communities, Manitoba (Tawfiq Md. Hasan)
• Recognizing Indigenous Adult Education potentials: Northern Manitoba promises (Ezra Bogle)
• Assessing the intercultural communication competence of pre service teachers (Melissa Goulbourne)
• Inuit Perspectives from the lived experiences of an Inuit teacher living in Winnipeg (Nichola Batzel)
• Nurturing Capacity: Innovations in Indigenous education across the country (Sonia Prevost-Derbecker & Kathy Mallet)
• Decolonizing the Teaching Self: Developing a Curriculum of Community (Shirley Kirby)

• Closing Circle
• Passing of the Bundle for the 6^th Annual Canadian Symposium on Indigenous Teacher Education
• Closing Prayer
• Adjournment