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 .SSHRC 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: Terry Beaudry, SD 23; Adriene Vedan, Aboriginal Programs and Services; Brenda Hebert, UBC O; Lyle Mueller, UBC O. This study aims to examine the similarities between Mindfulness and Indigenous knowledge. 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:
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Wellcome Center, University of Exeter
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UBC Eminence Funding
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SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 2016 – 2019 $162,000.00Re-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. 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). |