Looking into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation...
Channel: UBC Education Research
Date: 2014-07-11

TITLE: Looking into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an institutional Orientation for Graduate Education

UBC Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy/Indigenous Education/Office of Graduate Programs and Research present:

Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy is a citizen of the Lumbee Nation.  He is President's Professor, Borderlands Professor of Indigenous Education and Justice, and Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University.   His research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous students, staff, and faulty in institutions of higher education.  More recently, he has been engaged in scholarship that seeks to explore the role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in educational research and its methodologies.
 
This lecture will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education.

Complete details of the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series can be found at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014