Faculty of Education Summer 2011
Long Service awards for 2010
Front ( left to right ): Kristina Lee ( 20 yrs ), Ron Farnel ( 10 yrs ), Heather Ryan ( 10 yrs ) Back ( left to right ): James McNinch ( Dean ), Tanya Elliot ( 10 yrs ), donna patterson ( 20 yrs ), Rod Dolmage ( 15 yrs ) Missing : Karen Lind ( 20 yrs ), Juanita Modeland ( 25 yrs ). Photo Credit : Trevor Hopkins
Dr . Marc Spooner enjoying the evening festivities at the QI cookout BBQ .
International Qualitative Inquiry Congress
In May 2011 , a small group from the Faculty of Education ( U of R ), FNUC , File Hills Qu ' Appelle Tribal Council , and the University of Concordia travelled to the 7 th International Qualitative Inquiry Congress in Urbana-Champaign , Illinois , to present papers on two plenary panels . The panels , chaired by Patrick Lewis , were entitled : “ Okana ka-asateki : The view from out here ,” Part I and Part II .
Presentations were made by JoLee Blackbear , Douglas Brown ,
Carol Fulton , Patrick Lewis , Karen Lind , Val Mulholland , Heather Ritenburg , and Marc Spooner with Linda Goulet , Jo-Ann Episkenew , Karen Schmidt and Mark Dieter in absentia .
Note : Okana ka-asateki is a Cree word which refers to the area where a large pile of bison bones used to rest near the present day Wascana Lake in Regina , Saskatchewan . When the first Europeans arrived , they named the burgeoning settlement , Pile- O-Bones .
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