What’s New ?
Aboriginal Research Display
March 4, 2010
11am - 3pm
You are invited to display an academic poster describing your Aboriginal-focused research in celebration of Aboriginal Achievement Week 2010 at the University of Saskatchewan. Space has been arranged within the Student Lounge on the main floor of the College of Education. We will be able to accommodate a limited number of tables, poster boards, and tri-pods. Standard posters of 3’ x 4’ are recommended. You are also invited to submit one PowerPoint slide for inclusion in an automated display at the Aboriginal Achievement Week 2010 lunch.
Please fill out the attached form(s) and e-mail to aerc@usask.ca or fax to 966-1363.
Poster Registration Form (Word document)
Research Promotion Slide (PDF)
Safe Schools Conference 2010
February 24 - 26, 2010
The Aboriginal Education Research Centre is pleased to announce our support for Saskatchewan’s 5th Safe Schools Conference to be held February 24 – 26, 2010 at TCU Place in Saskatoon. The successful 2009 conference, hosted earlier this year in Meadow Lake, welcomed educators, administrators, students and guests from many professions wishing to hear from experts in related fields and engage in a dialogue together about innovations in creating and maintaining safe schools. AERC invites you to view the attached brochure for more information and mark the dates on your calendar!
Please contact Dr. Suzanne Zwarych at szwarych@sasktel.net for more information or to register for the conference. We look forward to seeing you there.
Brochure (PDF)
What is Green?
Poems from Inner City Youth
These poems are a selection of poems from poetry workshops I did over a two year period with a group of Grade 5, 6 and 7 students at Grandview Elementary School, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The school has a high Aboriginal student population; going into the workshops, I wondered what urban students had to say about their local ecologies. As a poet and English teacher, I wondered: Will poetry save the planet?
Veronica Gaylie,
Ph.D. Education University of British Columbia / Okanagan
Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
(ABLKC) Publications
Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre (ABLKC) publications will be posted as they become available at:
the AERC website at http://aerc.usask.ca/projects/ablkcpublications.html
at the website of our partner for this project: First Nations Adult and Higher Education Consortium (FHAHEC)
and on the website of the Canadian Council on Learning
Keep checking in with us to see our new publications as they become available!
North American Indigenous Foods Symposium 2009
June 4-6, 2009
In many parts of the world, Indigenous peoples are the original agriculturalists and botanists yet their wealth of information is seldom recognized or compensated. Indigenous food systems globally are increasingly under threat due to a variety of causes such as resource extraction, biopiracy, climate change, loss of traditional land base and the introduction of subsidized food imports. These threats in turn have produced drastic change in ways Indigenous peoples govern and shape their lives. As a result, organizations, citizens and researchers have worked with effected communities to contest many of these forces. It is under this context that the 3rd North American Indigenous Food Symposium (NAIFS 2009) is facilitating the gathering of speakers who will present research and projects ranging from current land issues and the effect of the global food crisis on indigenous communities to innovative community mobilization efforts and the development of entrepreneurial advancements on Indigenous food production. All participants will have the opportunity to discuss various models, field questions and draw lessons of past achievements and failures.
Learning Indigenous Science From Place
AERC is one of the founding members of the Indigenous Knowledge in the School Science Curriculum Committee, actively involved in dialogue circles regarding the importance of Indigenous Science and the status of Indigenous Science within school curriculum in Saskatchewan. In 2007, the Canadian Council on Learning provided funding for the Learning Indigenous Science from Place research project. The full report and executive summary are now available for download. The Committee and the Research Team, Dr. Herman Michell (First Nations University of Canada), Yvonne Vizina (U of S), Camie Augustus (U of S) and Jason Sawyer (U of S), invite you to review the report and engage in dialogues of your own. We hope you enjoy the report and welcome your feedback and comments!
The Virtual Aboriginal Health Training Centre of Excellence Discussion Paper is now posted for your review. The Executive Summary contains a series of questions to which your responses will help bring a focused approach to the research and development of a successful Centre.
Dr. Marie Battiste
Receives National Aboriginal Achievement Award
November
15, 2007
Fourteen exceptional achievers, coming from diverse backgrounds, both culturally
and geographically have been named recipients of the 2008 National Aboriginal
Achievement Awards.
"The 2008 award recipients have transformed their knowledge
and experience into outstanding achievement" said Roberta Jamieson, CEO
of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. "We invite all Canadians
and the world to join us in recognizing these extraordinary individuals who have
contributed so much to the greater society around them." The 14 recipients
will be honoured at the 15th Annual event, returning to Toronto after 10
years on March 7, 2008 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, taped
live, to be televised on both the Global and APTN television networks.
Dr. Marie Ann Battiste (Mi'kmaw) -- Education --
born to Mi'kmaw parents who did not finish primary school, she attained a
doctorate in education from Stanford University in 1984. She is one of the
acknowledged leaders of the renaissance in Indigenous education, both nationally
and internationally. As a unique world-class scholar, her influential books,
essays and collective works have created a new legacy in educational thought
and practice. Her achievements and commitments to Aboriginal knowledge, learning,
anti-racism, and decolonization in mainstream education have created significant
pathways for others to share and develop. She is a senior tenured professor
at the College of Education of the University of Saskatchewan, and Director
of the Aboriginal Educational Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan,
and co-director of Aboriginal Learning and Knowledge Centre, a national centre
of Canadian Council on Learning.
Read More About Awards: http://www.naaf.ca/html/2007-11-15_e.html
