Nicholas NG-A-Fook
Emma Barrett
Emma is an MA candidate in the Faculty of Education at uOttawa.
Emma graduated with an Honours BMus from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a BEd from The University of Western Ontario. Their research will focus on how gender inequality is represented in French-language instruction across education systems, and how current language use and practice fail to represent not only women, but also many gender non-conforming people in the LGBTQ2S+ community. They will examine recent efforts to bring about gender justice through neutral and inclusive French language, and how to best incorporate language evolution into the classroom.
Lisa is a Canadian of Northern European Descent, and a visitor on the unsurrendered, ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe people in Ottawa. She’s been a teacher with the Western Quebec School Board since 2006, where she has taught and learned from many Anishinaabe, Inuk, and Cree students. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, where she is also a part-time professor and researcher. Her SSHRC funded doctoral research seeks to deepen our understandings of how teachers might unlearn colonialism through ethical relationality. Lisa is also the lead research assistant on Just because we’re small doesn’t mean we can’t stand tall: Reconciliation education in the elementary school classroom. This SSHRC funded, multi-year project is a collaboration between the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.
SSHRC Project: Just because we’re small doesn’t mean we can’t stand tall: Reconciliation education in the elementary classroom as Research Project Manager.
Madelaine McCracken
Madelaine McCracken (she/her) is Red River Métis with family ties to St. Laurent, Manitoba. She is an incoming PhD Graduate Student at the University of Ottawa. She obtained her Master of Education in June 2021 and conducted her Major Research Paper called, “Addressing Truth and Reconciliation: The Caring Society, Professional Learning, and Ontario Social Studies Curricula” under Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook’s guidance and PhD Candidate Lisa Howell’s mentorship. She is conducting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit educational research in ethical partnership with the Caring Society and Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future. Both are SSHRC-funded projects where she is understanding how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit rights, perspectives, and values are represented in provincial and territorial curriculum expectations to support the development of professional learning opportunities for educators across Turtle Island. When she is not busy with research, she works full-time at the Caring Society as their Education and Public Outreach Coordinator. Madelaine is a determined advocate for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students of all ages.
SSHRC Project: Just because we’re small doesn’t mean we can’t stand tall: Reconciliation education in the elementary classroom as Research Assistant.
Nyein (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa’s Education faculty. She has completed her BA at the University of Saskatchewan, and MEd at the University of Ottawa. In addition to her doctoral studies, Nyein has a professional background in teaching in LINC ESL education and language learning via VR and AI. Her research interests include “Canadian” citizenship, settlement and integration experiences, and immigrant and refugee identities in English language learning classrooms.
Kate Robayo Sheridan is an education consultant who is passionate about challenging ongoing systemic inequities. She develops and pilots educational research projects, designs curriculum, and online courses. She has played central administrative roles in building teams that have launched different digital platforms at Concordia University, CBC/Radio-Canada and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Kate holds a Hon. B.A. from the University of Toronto and a Bachelors and M.A. in Education from the University of Ottawa. Her master’s thesis explored how readers and viewers renegotiate subject formations in relation to re-reading and viewing their narrative dwellings within trauma, loss, and conflict.
* Un merci spécial aux anciens membres de l’équipe de recherche : Melissa Daoust, Aaron Sardinha Drake, Hembadoon Iyortyer, Carol Lee, Patrick Phillips et Mélissa Villella.