Teaching and Learning Grants
Granting Agency | Project Title | Amount | Years | Investigators
SSHRC Partnership Grant
CO-CURRICULAR-MAKING: HONOURING INDIGENOUS CONNECTIONS TO LAND, CULTURE, AND THE RELATIONAL SELF
$1,076,813
2020-2025
Margaret Macintyre Latta (PI), University of British Columbia
Co-Investigators: Karen Ragoonaden, University of British Columbia; Sabre Cherkowski, University of British Columbia; Dwayne Donald, University of Alberta; Jan Hare, University of British Columbia; Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa; Sandra Styres, University of Toronto; Terry Beaudry, Central Okanagan Public Schools
Working together to negotiate the practices of co-curricular-making will foster creative and critical learning that is locally derived, and will enable self-understandings within the larger world. Locally, we will work alongside community organizations to share Sylix ways to care for tmxwulaxw (our land) and to develop ways to learn and live better together that are guided by captikwł (stories). Nationally, we will create experiential curricular pathways, ways to reorient education toward reconciliation and to mobilize efforts accordingly. By the end of this five-year project, participating local educators and their students will have gained deeper understandings of Syilx culture with pedagogies responsive to the connections among land, culture, and understandings of self in the world. With our partners, we will have developed teacher education programs and professional development initiatives that can reconceptualize education towards individual and collective agency, growth, and well-being, attending to the strengths and particularities of their students and the resources of place. Through the articulation of such decolonizing co-curricular-making, education ministries, districts, and institutions will engage and mobilize reconciliation-in-action across Canada.
Exploring the cultural and creative dimensions of health and well-being through arts-based transformative engaged research
University of Exeter, Wellcome Center 2019
Our goal is to engage diverse communities in cultural and creative practices that have the potential to promote, enhance, restore, and sustain health and wellbeing. This collaborative international research project will explore intersections, complementarities and reciprocities between holistic performance training, mindfulness practice, and place-based cultural processes guided by Indigenous principles.
Drawing from our collective expertise in the arts, humanities, education, and social sciences via international and regional partnerships connecting universities in the UK, Canada, and France, we will co-conceptualize and co-design an arts-based transformative engaged research model exploring the critical and creative conditions for health and well-being practices that foster sustainability across the life course.
Project Partners
University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Virginie Magnat
Karen Ragoonaden
University of Exeter
Konstantinos Thomaidis
Bryony Onciul
Ann Grand
Insight Grant 2017-2021 $ 100,000.00
Mindfulness and Indigenous Knowledge: Shared Narratives about Well-Being
Dr. Karen Ragoonaden (PI); Dr. Macintyre Latta (Co-PI); Dr. Tina Fraser (Co-PI), UNBC; Dr. Ross Hoffman, (Co-PI), UNBC.
Collaborators: SD 23; Aboriginal Programs and Services, UBC O; UNBC
This study aims to examine the similarities between Mindfulness and Indigenous knowledges. An ancillary aim is to examine how integrating Mindful practices into university courses, whose focus is on Indigenous knowledge, impact on identity and on the wholistic well-being of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal student populations. Specifically, the following three objectives have been identified:
- Identify similarities relating to Mindfulness and to Indigenous knowledge
- Determine if the integration of Mindfulness and Indigenous knowledge in university courses impacts on identity and the well-being of students
- Develop a framework that identifies conditions under which Mindfulness and Indigenous knowledge can inform curriculum, practice and policy in higher education
Exploring synergies between cultural, creative and mindfulness practices that have the potential to foster and sustain health and well-being.
UBC Research Excellence Cluster, Eminence 2018-2022
This cluster draws on the collective expertise of researchers from Canada, the U.K. and France to co-develop an arts-based community-engaged research model. The cluster will combine cultural, creative and mindfulness practices and integrate the perspectives of Indigenous scholars and artists to explore the cultural, spiritual and environmental dimensions of health and well-being.
CLUSTER LEADS
Virginie Magnat & Karen Ragoonaden
CLUSTER RESEARCH TEAM
Sarah Dow-Fleisner
Tania Willard
Evan Adams
Rena Sharon
Vicki Kelly (SFU)
Konstantinos Thomaidis (University of Exeter)
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 2016 - 2019 $162,000.00
Re-Storying Canadian History: The Interdependence of Creative and Critical Thinking
Dr. M. Macintyre Latta; (PI); Dr. K, Ragoonaden (Co-PI); Dr. Rita Irwin (Co-PI)
Collaborators: SD 23; Okanagan Symphony Orchestra.
This proposal contributes to a program of research that examines the nature, roles, and significances of K-6 curriculum enactment that purposefully embraces the interdependency of creative and critical thinking within cross-disciplinary learning experiences for all involved. An arts experience has formed the creative and critical contexts for a three-year community partnership with an elementary school, district and associated teachers, administrators, and students, the Artistic Director of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and participating musicians, alongside curricular, indigenous, and historical studies and research expertise from the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Ministry of Education, Aboriginal Education
Aboriginal Enhancement Agreements
$ 50,000
2015-2016
Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrew Kitchenham, UNBC
Co-Investigators: Drs. Tina Fraser, UNBC, Michelle Pidgeon, SFU, Karen Ragoonaden, UBC O
Mitacs
AIM French Language Learning
$10 000
2013-2014
Karen Ragoonaden, Susan Crichton, Patricia Laserre
Aboriginal Advisory Board, UBC Okanagan
First Year Experience and Aboriginal Circles of Learning
$10 000
2012-2013
Karen Ragoonaden
CIDA Global Classroom Initiative
Global Citizenship and Cross-Cultural Communication
$5 000
2011-2012
Kelly Quinlan, UNICEF Canada, Karen Ragoonaden
The University of British Columbia Okanagan
Raising Intercultural Awareness Bridging the Gap between Kelowna and China
$10 000
2009-2011
Karen Ragoonaden, Grisel Garcia Perez
The University of British Columbia
Exploring Health and Wellness Practices in the Workplace
$4 800
2007-2009
Karen Ragoonaden
SSHRC HSS UBC
Intercultural Competence and Socially Oriented French: The Key to Canadian Bilingualism
$2 500
2007-2009
Karen Ragoonaden
Ministry of Education, British Columbia
Official Language in Education Protocol (OLEP)
$16 123
2005
Karen Ragoonaden
The University of British Columbia Okanagan
Socially Oriented French: The Key to Increasing Bilingualism
$2 400
2005-2007
Karen Ragoonaden