Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
Her research program features working alongside urban and rural Indigenous communities to better understand and respond to health influences such as unintentional injuries, tobacco use, and geographic labour mobility. By focusing on prevention education strategies that are community-derived and that serve to restore traditional learning modalities, Dr. Friedel is currently helping to create educational resources that meet the needs of a variety of institutional and demographic contexts.
Contributions:
Friedel, T.L. (2011). Looking for learning in all the wrong places: Urban Native youths’ cultured response to Western-oriented place-based learning. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Special Issue – Youth Resistance Revisited, 24 (5), 531-546.
Co-developer of a new Graduate Certificate in Outdoor & Experiential Learning at UBC
Keywords:
Outdoor education; Place-based learning; Community-based research methodology (CBPR) in Indigenous communities; Indigenous injury prevention/safety education; Metis geographic labour mobility.
tracy.friedel@ubc.ca
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