Teaching and Supervision

Graduate Supervision

I welcome inquiries from graduate students interested in climate and gender justice in Latin American contexts. If you are a Spanish-speaking student and would like to collaborate on one of my ongoing projects, I invite you to get in touch to discuss potential opportunities.

Courses

Politics and Policy-Making in Organizations (ED-D 533A)

An examination of politics in educational and related organizations: concepts of influence, authority, power, and control; frameworks for analyzing and understanding politics and policy; actors and agendas; interest and pressure groups; conflict and conflict resolution; the interface of leadership and politics; implications for governance and administrative practice.

Critical Racial and Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches (GRSJ 415)

Critical anti-colonial and feminist analyses of colonial and racial subjugation, as well as the many modalities of Indigenous, Black, and women of colour’s resistance.

Education, Schools, and Social Institutions (EDST 401 – NITEP)

This course provides Indigenous teacher candidates with a culturally relevant and safe space to inquire into the context and nature of schooling as a key institution in a pluralist and democratic society, including what constitutes a good student, teacher, and education.

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education (EDST 403 – NITEP)

This course provides Indigenous teacher candidates with a culturally relevant and safe space to explore understandings of curriculum and pedagogy as related to knowledge and truth. What knowledge has been considered of most worth, and how has this shaped curriculum decisions? How do Indigenous knowledges differ from Eurocentric ideas of knowledge and truth?

Education, Schools, and Social Institutions (EDST 401)

This course provides students entering the teaching profession opportunities to inquire into the context and nature of schooling as a key institution in a pluralist and democratic society, including what constitutes a good student, teacher, and education.

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education (EDST 403)

This course provides students with opportunities to explore understandings of curriculum and pedagogy as related to knowledge and truth. What knowledge has been considered of most worth, and how has this shaped curriculum decisions? How do Indigenous knowledges differ from Eurocentric ideas of knowledge and truth?

Language revitalization

A seminar on leadership in formal and non-formal educational contexts that centers Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Examines professional issues, including structures and governance within the BC School system, school law and legal requirements for the teaching professional. The role of the professional as an ethical, reflective and critically engaged practitioner is emphasized.

Intersectional Approaches to Thinking Gender (GRSJ 300)

Interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between gender and (neo)colonialism, racism, poverty, ableism, and heterosexism in a globalized world. Historical and cross-cultural aspects, and the social construction of sex and gender, masculinity and femininity.

Teacher as Leader: the Professional Role (EDD 410)

A seminar on contemporary professional issues, including structures and governance within the BC School system, school law and legal requirements for the teaching professional. The role of the professional as an ethical, reflective and critically engaged practitioner is emphasized. Themes include teacher leadership, professional growth and collaboration and maintaining professional relationships in schools and communities.

Early Childhood Education Leadership (ECED 585F)

This course explores leadership and policy within the context of current political and philosophical dialogues in early childhood education and beyond. Students will develop an understanding of the complexities of leadership and policy when these concepts are examined through their relationships with democracy, ethics, human (and children’s) rights, subjectivity and innovation.

Gender, Leadership, and Learning (ED-D 540)

Explores leadership through the lenses of feminism, intersectionality, trans and masculinities discourses in diverse contexts such as trans, 2SLGBTQI+ and women’s movement(s), the voluntary sector, community organizations and government.