| Title | Enhancing Curriculum and Building Capacity in Aboriginal Education for Faculty and Teacher Candidates |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Education |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2011 |
| Completion | 03/31/2013 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2011/2012 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Jan Hare |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 91,500 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Jan Hare, Language and Literacy, Faculty of Education |
| Year 1: Summary | The Faculty of Education recently approved a re-visioned teacher education program for September 2012 which includes a new required course for all Teacher Candidates, EDUC 440, Aboriginal Education. We intend to
In this way, all 800 (approximately) teachers who graduate from the new program in the spring of 2013 and beyond will have received a thorough education in Aboriginal topics. Through this project our goal is to respond meaningfully to the feedback summary from UBC’s Aboriginal Strategic Plan that advocates for "...the need to include Indigenous knowledge and epistemologies through the development of Aboriginal curriculum". |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2012/2013 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Jan Hare |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 12,000 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Jan Hare, Language and Literacy, Faculty of Education |
| Year 2: Summary | The project being proposed in this application represents Year 2 of a larger TLEF project for which we received funding in 2011/2012. In Year 2 the goal of the continuing TLEF is to:
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