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Thursday, September 22 @ 5:00pmthe newman centre, 3484 Peel Streetmcgill university
Presented during Indigenous Awareness Week by McGill's Centre for Researchon Religion (CREOR) in collaboration with the Faculty of Education and FirstPeoples' House as part of the Lecture Series on Indigenous Pathways in theAcademy.
Indigenous Pathways in Education
Creor Lecture:
Margaret Kovach (Sakewew p'sim iskwew) is of Plains Cree and Saulteauxancestry and a member of Pasqua First Nation located in southernSaskatchewan. She is currently an Associate Professor at the College ofEducation at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Kovach's work focuseson Indigenous research methodologies and Indigenous postsecondaryeducation. Her publications have had a significant impact in evolving fields ofIndigenous studies and education. Her award winning book, IndigenousMethodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, (University ofToronto Press) has been widely cited and used nationally, and internationally.Professor Kovach coauthored a SSHRC funded report, Indigenous Presence:Experiencing and Envisioning Indigenous Knowledges within Selected Postsecondary Sites of Education and Social Work (2015). She was the planning cochair of the 2015 University of Saskatchewan's national forum BuildingReconciliation: Universities Answering theTRC's Calls to Action.