Jan Hare

Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)

Dr. Hare is an Indigenous scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation in Northern Ontario, Canada. She the current holder of the Professorship of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education, integrating Indigenous perspectives across programs in teacher education. Her research and teaching are committed to improving educational outcomes for Aboriginal learners and aimed at centering Indigenous knowledge systems within educational reform from early childhood education to post-secondary.

Contributions:

Teaching for Indigenous Education: www.indigenouseducation.educ.ubc.ca
Aboriginal Family and Community Literacy Curriculum: https://afclc.sites.olt.ubc.ca
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education
Hare, J. (December 2012). “They tell a story and there’s meaning behind that story” Indigenous knowledge and young children’s literacy learning. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 12 (4).
Hare, J. & Anderson, J. (2010). Transitions to Early Childhood Education for Indigenous Children and Families: Social and Historical Realities. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 35 (2), 19-27.

Keywords:

Indigenous education; Indigenous literacies; Aboriginal family literacy; Indigenous early childhood; Aboriginal ways of knowing; Indigenous methodology.
jan.hare@ubc.ca 
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