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CASIE Board of Directors
Elected officers for the period of May 2009 – May 2010 to include success planning so that there is a continuous president present.
President (Two year term – then moves into a past president position for two years)
Laara Fitznor
221A Education Building
Faculty of Education
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2 Canada
Phone: (204) 474-7158
Fax: (204) 474-7551
fitznorl@ms.umanitoba.ca
First Vice-President (Two year term – then moves into the president position)
Dwayne Donald
445 Education South
Curriculum Studies and Indigenous Perspectives
Department of Secondary Education
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Phone: (780) 492-5639
Dwayne.donald@ualberta.ca
Past President (Sage) (Term finishes when Laara Fitznor moves into the past president position)
Marie Battiste
Academic Director, Aboriginal Education Research Centre,
Co-Director, Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre,
Department of Educational Foundations,
College of Education,
University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, SASK
S7N 0X1
Phone: 306-966-7576
marie.battiste@usask.ca
Second Vice-President (Term is two years then moves into the first vice president position)
Rainey Gaywish
Aboriginal Education Centre
11 The Promenade
Program Director
Aboriginal Focus Programs
Extended Education
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3B 3J1 Canada
Phone: (204) 982-4226
Fax: (204) 982-6290
Rainey_Gaywish@UManitoba.CA
Secretary (Term is renewable every two years)
Cam Willett
School of Education
Laurentian University
Phone: (705) 675-1151 ext: 4388
cwillett@laurentian.ca
Treasurer (Term is renwable every two years)
Verna Billy-Minnabarriet
Vice-President Learning Services
Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
Phone: (604) 602-3415
vbilly@nvit.bc.ca
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Canadian Association for the Study of Indiginous Education (CASIE)
Appreciation and Acknowledgements
A heartfelt note of thanks goes out to those individuals who attended and joined in the past CSSE Aboriginal assemblies to share their thoughts, perspectives, time, energies, and hopes for the development and establishment of an Aboriginal/Indigenous association within the CSSE. This reality is a welcomed development by professors, students, researchers and practitioners in Aboriginal/Indigenous education.
Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education (CASIE)
CASIE promotes the study and dialogue of professors, students, researchers and practioners in the field of Aboriginal/Indigenous education. CASIE is a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). The purpose of the Aboriginal association as noted in the CASIE by-laws is listed as follows:
- to foster the exchange of ideas about ongoing research and development in Aboriginal/Indigenous (hereafter Indigenous) Education in Canada.
- to provide a forum for discussion of Indigenous education studies in a Canadian context.
- to encourage the publication of papers and reports of scholarly work in Indigenous education
- to bring together members whose disciplines are quite diverse but who maintain a common interest in Indigenous education.
- to foster and encourage commitment to research priorities of Indigenous peoples and their communities and respectful research processes and protocols with/in Canadian life-wide and life-long educational spheres.
Introduction
At the 2008 CSSE conference, a motion to request an Aboriginal association was put to the assembly to vote for the newly formed Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education (CASIE). The motion was carried. CASIE is now another national constituent association within the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). CASIE executive for the 2008/09 year comprise of the following individuals: Laara Fitznor, University of Manitoba; Dwayne Donald, University of Alberta; Marie Battiste, University of Saskatchewan; Rainey Gaywish, University of Manitoba; Cam Willett, Laurentian University; and Verna Billy-Minnabarriet.
History of CASIE
The idea of an Aboriginal constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education was discussed during the Aboriginal assemblies scheduled as part of the CSSE conference program agenda since 1998. The CSSE 1998 conference identified Merle Richards (Brock University) as chairing the assembly at which time the idea of developing terms of reference, constitutional items, membership, and assembly aspirations would take place. Laara Fitznor (OISE/UT) co-chaired the meeting which resulted in a discussion of the needs and aspirations for an association and decision to ensure that at minimum an Aboriginal assembly should be scheduled in each upcoming CSSE conference program until an association was formed to include the leadership of Aboriginal/ Indigenous faculty. It was hoped that during this process that a critical mass of individuals interested in such an association would eventually become a reality. Over the next few years a number of interested faculty, students, researchers, and practioners both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal met during the scheduled times to continue with the conversation to form an association. During the past few years Dwayne Donald (University of Alberta), Laara Fitznor (University of Manitoba) and Marie Battiste (University of Saskatchewan), Joann Archibald (University of British Columbia) were among other CSSE members who committed as a working group to see an association formed that would provide a space for the sharing of Aboriginal/ Indigenous education and research. Finally, the work resulted in the invitation of the CSSE leadership to formalize the CASIE association by presenting a constitution, names of executive, and membership to the 2008 CSSE AGM for ratification. At the pre-conference meeting Joann Archibald (University of British Columbia) and Marie Battiste (University of Saskatchewan) chaired the proceedings to firm up CASIE by-laws, membership, hopes and desires for the association, and to elect an executive committee. Once these critical pieces were confirmed, the next step was to present a motion to the CSSE AGM for ratification that the Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education become a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. The motion was carried.
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Association Web Sites
Founded in 1972, the bilingual CSSE is an umbrella organization consisting of the following national constituent associations:
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