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Jean-Paul Restoule, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Associate Professor

Adult Education and Community Development Program

Telephone: (416) 978-0806, Fax: (416) 926-4749
Email: jeanpaul.restoule@utoronto.ca
Office: 7-181

Courses

AEC1180H: Aboriginal Worldviews: Implications for Education
AEC1184H: Aboriginal Knowledge

Aboriginal Education at OISE/UT

Adult Education and Community Development
AEC1171H Aboriginal education: Contemporary Programs and Policies
AEC1180H Aboriginal worldviews: Implications for Education
AEC1184H Aboriginal Knowledge
AEC3131H Aboriginal Community Learning

Counselling Psychology
AEC1214H Critical Multicultural Practice: Diversity Issues in Counselling
Contact Suzanne Stewart for more information.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
Contact Martin Cannon for further information about Aboriginal education course offerings for 2007-08

.Research Interests

· Aboriginal Education
· Aboriginal cultural identity(ies),
· indigenous research methodologies,
· Aboriginal representation, film and media,
· intercultural communication,
· urbanization,
· indigenous knowledge,
· environmental education,
· anti-racism and decolonizing.

Recent Research Projects

Minobimaatisiiwin: Indigenous knowledge, Sustainability and Aboriginal People in Toronto. Co-investigator with Deb McGregor (P.I.), Daniel Justice, Alex McKay and Keren Rice.

HIV Risks, Systemic Inequities, and Aboriginal Youth: Widening the Circle for Prevention Programming. Co-investigator with June Larkin (P.I.), Michelle Dagnino, Sarah Flicker, Ruth Koleszar-Green, Claudia Mitchell, and Susan Mintz.

Male Aboriginal Identity Formation in Urban Areas: A Focus on Process and Context.

Bringing Minobimaatisiwin into the nursing academy: Envisioning effective mental health nurse practitioner programming. Co-investigator with Eileen Antone (PI), Rebecca Hagey, and others.

Aboriginal post-secondary education participation. Primary investigator

Traditional Anishinaabek Teachings for Aboriginal Research. Primary Investigator.

Refereed Publications

Restoule, J.P. (2006). Education as healing: How urban Aboriginal men described post-secondary schooling as decolonizing. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 34 (2005), pp. 123-131

Restoule, J.P. (forthcoming). Irresistible forces: Indigenous knowledge meets the academy. R. Thomas (Ed.). Indigenous Knowledge: Contentions and transformations.

Restoule, J.P. (2003). Using Anishinaabe teachings to inform identity research. In partnership: Proceedings of the annual conference, CINSA 2001, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, pp.54-68. Available from Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan.

Restoule, J.P. (2001). Aboriginal identification from the inside out. Proceedings of CINSA's 2000 Annual Conference, University of Alberta, in Edmonton Alberta. Available from School of Native Studies.

Restoule, J.P. (Ed.). (2001). Talking circle on indigenous research. CINSA 2000, Proceedings of CINSA's Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. Available from School of Native Studies, University of Alberta.

Restoule, J.P., Harder, B. & Cuthbert, M. (2001). Looking inward for film visions: Aboriginal empowerment through film. In Melkote, S. R. & Rao, S. (Eds.) Critical issues in communication: Looking inward for answers, pp. 241-259. New Delhi: Sage.

Restoule, J.P. (2000). Aboriginal identity: The need for historical and contextual perspectives. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 24(2), 102-111.

Restoule, J.P. (2000). Walking on one earth: An Aboriginal education example. Environments, 28(2), pp.37-48.

Restoule, J.P. (1999). Making movies, changing lives: Aboriginal film and identity. Canadian issues/Themes canadiens, XXI, pp. 180-189. Montreal: Association for Canadian Studies.

Restoule, J.P. (1997). Intercultural communication in Aboriginal sentencing circles in Canada, Media Development, XLIV, 3, 22-25.

Other Activities

· Co-chair, Indigenous Education Network
· Executive member, Transformative Learning Centre
· Vice President, Canadian Indigenous/Native Studies Association

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