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Please join Dr. Marie Battiste on Wednesday, October 14, 2015 from 9:30 to 11:00 am in the Life Science Centre, Room C238. 

Dr. Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaw educator from Potlotek First Nations, Nova Scotia, and a full professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the founding academic director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Saskatchewan, founding board member for the Canadian Council on Learning and former co-director of the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre. She currently heads a SSHRC funded research hub at the University of Saskatchewans, called the Canadian Prevention Science Cluster, aimed at identifying evidence-based research for school-based violence prevention programs. With degrees from Harvard and Stanford universities, she is widely acclaimed Indigenous scholar in Canada whose work in Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies, and has opened new areas of research and inquiry. She has received many awards and degrees, including four honorary degrees from Saint Mary’s, University of Maine at F! armington, Thompson Rivers University, and the University of Ottawa, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2014, a Canadian organization of over 2000 Canadian scholars, artists, and scientists, peer-elected as the best in their field. She was a recipient of the Distinguished Academic Award in 2013 from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, a recipient of the distinguished researcher award from the University of Saskatchewan, and received an Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Award, now INDSPIRE, in 2008 for her contributions in education. Her current book Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit was nominated for the Saskatchewan Book Award in the category of scholarly book, and she received a Saskatchewan Book Award for Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge (Saskatoon: Purich Press, 2000) co-authored with J. Youngblood Henderson. She is the editor of Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision (UBC Press, 2000) and! senior editor of First Nations Education in Canada: The Circl! e Unfolds (UBC Press, 1995) and author of many widely published chapters and journals.

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