NEW FACULTY AND STAFF
Melanie Brice
Michelle Coupal
Cristyne Hébert
Dr . Melanie Brice is Michif , and was born in Meadow Lake and raised in Jackfish Lake , Saskatchewan . She is a proud mother of three grown daughters . With her husband , Trevor , she enjoys spending time at the lake with her children and grandchildren .
Melanie is proud to be a graduate of the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program ( SUNTEP ) in Saskatoon . She started her career in education with Saskatoon Catholic Schools . She completed a Master ' s in Education at the University of Saskatchewan , focusing on Métis Teacher Identity , and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education at the University of Alberta , focusing on Indigenous children ' s literacy . She is looking forward to continuing her work in Indigenous education .
UPCOMING ECE COURSES
ECE 498 Winter 2019 Trauma-Informed Practice for Educators and the Helping Professions ------------------------ Summer Institute 2019 : EC & I 811 and EC & I 813 Play , Art & Narrative : Critical Issues in ECE July 2nd — 23rd , 2019 For more information contact Patrick . Lewis @ uregina . ca
Dr . Michelle Coupal ( Bonnechere Algonquin First Nation ) is an Associate Professor in truth and reconciliation education in the Faculty of Education , University of Regina . Michelle is the President of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association . She specializes in and teaches courses on Indigenous literatures , Indian Residential School literature , Indigenous media / film , and Canadian literature .
Michelle is co-editor ( with Deanna Reder [ Cree / Métis ], Joanne Arnott [ Métis ], and Emalene A . Manuel [ Secwepemc / Ktunaxa ]) of a collection of the works of Secwepemc / Ktunaxa writer Vera Manuel , Honouring the Strength of Indian Women : Plays , Stories , Poetry . Published by the University of Manitoba Press — First Voices First Texts series — the book is scheduled to be released in February 2019 .
Michelle ’ s book-in-progress , Teaching Trauma and Indian Residential School Literatures in Canada , was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant ( 2016-2019 ) and will be published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press .
Michelle has published and submitted articles on teaching trauma and Indian residential school literature , pedagogies of reconciliation , the cultural work of teaching truth and reconciliation through narrative , and Indigenous positioning protocols in the classroom .
Dr . Cristyne Hébert joined the Faculty of Education in July 2018 as an Assistant Professor in Assessment and Evaluation . She completed her Ph . D . in 2015 in Education from York University , and holds Bachelor ’ s and Master ’ s of Arts degrees in philosophy .
Cristyne is a certified elementary and secondary school teacher . Before joining the Faculty , she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at York University ’ s Institute for Research on Digital Learning and taught for a number of years in a Liberal Arts program in Ontario . Cristyne ’ s research is situated in multimodal assessment , teacher education , digital and new media literacies , and curriculum studies . She is currently involved in a number of digitally focused research projects , including investigating pedagogical practices to support student learning through video games , digital storytelling through comics with parents and youth as a means of enhancing parental engagement in schools , and digital mapping with teacher candidates as a way to disrupt colonial conceptions of space . Her dissertation critiqued the use of a standardized assessment for teacher certification in the United States , the edTPA .
Born and raised in Toronto , Cristyne is excited to join the Faculty at the University of Regina . She is looking forward to learning alongside colleagues , students , and community members on Treaty Four territory . www . ineducation . ca
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