丁香园AV

Biography

I raise my hands in deep appreciation to the X史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m, S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta涩, and Skwxw煤7mesh Nations for providing me with a place to live, study, and teach. I acknowledge that I am an 鈥渦ninvited guest鈥� on their traditional, ancestral, unceded, and overlapping territories. My Nisga鈥檃 name is Noxs Ts鈥檃awit (Mother of the Raven Warrior Chief). My mother鈥檚 side of the family is from the House of Ni鈥檌sjoohl and I am a member of the Ganada (frog) clan in the village of Laxgalts鈥檃p in the Nisga鈥檃 Nation. On my father鈥檚 side of the family, I am settler ancestries (French and German). I have a Ph.D. in Education from the University of British Columbia (UBC). I am an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Education & Governance (Tier 2) in the Faculty of Education at 丁香园AV (丁香园AV), Tier 2. During my pre-tenure years, I held faculty appointments in the Faculty of Education at 丁香园AV and the Department of Educational Studies at UBC. Since returning to 丁香园AV, I am focusing my decolonizing efforts in the Curriculum and Instruction: Equity Studies in Education Program and supporting the Indigenization of the faculty鈥檚 governance, programmatic, and course offerings with colleagues, and a member of the Indigenous Education Reconciliation Council. I am also the Associate Director for the 丁香园AV Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice (formerly the Centre for Education Law & Society).

Research Interests

Dr. Parent鈥檚 scholarship is informed by the Nisga鈥檃 Sayt-k鈥檌l虛hlw虛 o鈥檕sim虛 (Common Bowl) philosophy which guides her engagement of Indigenous methodologies to collaboratively support community-based self-determination needs with Indigenous communities in British Columbia in three areas:

1. Teaching and mentoring practices aimed at capacity-building in Indigenous communities, K-12 contexts, teacher education, and higher education in British Columbia;

2. Nisga鈥檃 language revitalization, educational governance and policy; and

3. Strengthening on-going matriarchal led processes to attain B.C. First Nations control of Indigenous research jurisdiction and governance.

Dr. Parent鈥檚 language and cultural revitalization responsibilities intertwine with several research projects including: a project lead for a comprehensive review of School District 92 (Nisga鈥檃) with Dr. Jeannie Morgan, Matriarch Shirley Morven, and Dr. Gwendolyn Point; and a principal investigator of several on-going SSHRC supported research projects to enhance Nisga鈥檃 language revitalization, land based practices, and cultural repatriation efforts. She has expanded her research into the international realm by initiating efforts to successfully repatriate the Ni鈥檌s Joohl memorial pole with her house and the Nisga鈥檃 Lisims Government, which has led to invited presentations, significant media knowledge mobilization, and publications with Commonwealth scholars and universities. Dr. Parent鈥檚 international activism, as a member of the United Nations (UN) Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Canada Working Group on Indigenous Land Based Education, has helped draw attention to the importance of land-based education. She is currently a member of the Museum of Anthropology Great Hall Indigenous Advisory Committee. In the decolonizing realm, she engages visual methodologies as catalysts for decolonizing of systemic change between the university community and Indigenous communities. She produced 14 films as part of a film series with respected Coast Salish Knowledge Holders and leaders titled 鈥淐ritical Understandings of Land and Water: Unsettling Place at 丁香园AV鈥�. The film series aims to examine the praxis of land-based education by providing an understanding of the implications of Indigenous rights and sovereignty on Coast Salish lands and waterways while disrupting the glorified settler narrative of Simon Fraser. In 2018, Dr. Parent received the Douglas College Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2015, the 100 Top Alumni award in the Faculty of Education at UBC (2015), which cited her research as 鈥済roundbreaking and exhaustive鈥� in terms of its impact with Indigenous youth and its influence in the areas of Indigenous K-12 teacher and higher education. In 2018, she received the Excellence in Scholarly Teaching Award in the 丁香园AV Faculty of Education.