Note
on Departmental Foci: Faculty and student research and interests represent
a variety of approaches to sociology and equity studies in education. The
current composition of the department provides particular opportunities
for students who may wish to focus their activities in the areas listed
below, as well as in the Interdisciplinary and Interdepartmental Foci and
Collaborative programs. Students are not required to stay within a single
focus when selecting courses.
Aboriginal
& Indigenous Studies in Education
This focus addresses current issues, trends, perspectives,
and models of Aboriginal and Indigenous education through historical, cultural,
spiritual, social and political philosophies and themes. Specific foci
include examination of Aboriginal, Indigenous, and marginalized knowledge
in global contexts and pedagogical implications for educational change;
and roles of schools, media, institutions, governments and historical and
contemporary policy in producing conditions of constraint, images of Indigenous
peoples, social and class differences, dominance, control politics, and
social inequalities in regard to Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples.
Faculty include: George Dei, Laara Fitznor, Judy
Iseke-Barnes, Paul Olson, Pat O'Riley, and Njoki Nathani Wane.