Jennifer Tupper

Dean, Faculty of Education - Deans Office

Contact

Dean, Faculty of Education - Deans Office
Email
jatupper@ualberta.ca

Overview

About

Education:

Bachelor of Education with distinction, University of Alberta, 1994

Masters of Arts in Education, University of British Columbia, 1998

PhD, University of Alberta, 2005

Positions:

2004-2008: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

2008-2017: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

2009-2010: Secondary Program Chair, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

2011-2014: Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

2014-2017: Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Regina

2017-present: Professor & Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta

Awards & Recognitions :

2019 Star Blanket presented by Think Indigenous

2017 Metis Sash presented by SUNTEP

2009 Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies Outstanding Publication Award

2007 City of Regina Service Award

2005 Dissertation Award of Merit, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies

2002 University of Alberta Graduate Award for Teaching Excellence


Research

Research Interests:

Treaty education; truth and reconciliation; critical citizenship; anti-oppressive teaching and learning; teacher education.

Selected Research Projects:

2016-2022: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, 2016-2020 ($263,713). Aboriginal Perspectives at the Cultural Interface: Researching the Interventions, (co-researcher).

2016-2017: Stirling McDowell Foundation Award, 2016-2017 ($19,933). High School Teachers Working Towards Reconciliation: Examining the Teaching and Learning of Residential Schools (principal researcher).

2016: SSHRC Connections Grant partner ($30,000 ) – What is Learning in a (Teacher Education) Professional Program? Connection grant leads Dr. Lisa Starr (McGill University) and Dr. Kathy Sanford (University of Victoria), May 6-8, 2016.

2011-2014: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant ($67,909). Storying Treaties and the Treaty Relationship: Digital Storytelling to Enhance Treaty Education, (co-researcher)

2009: President’s Fund and SSHRC General Research Grant Fund, University of Regina ($4949.00). Preparing Beginning Teachers for Treaty Education

2006-2010: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant ($117,000). High School Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Citizenship (principal investigator).

2005: President’s Fund and SSHRC General Research Grant Fund, University of Regina ($4485.00). On Being Citizens: High School Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Citizenship.


Teaching

Teaching Areas:

Secondary Social Studies Methods

Middle Years Social Studies Methods

Curriculum Theory

Research Methods

Anti-Colonial Education

Doctoral Student Supervision (completed):

Michele Sorensen, defended March 25, 2018

Dissertation: Attuning to the Quantum Leap: New Materialism and Field Experience in Teacher Education.

*Nominated for Governor General's Gold Medal, University of Regina

Tana Mitchell, defended November 15, 2013

Dissertation: Problematizing Racialism: Exploring the Complexities of Racialization and the Structuring Forces of Whiteness in the Lived Experiences of High School Social Studies.

Jody Burnett, defended July 5, 2012

Dissertation: Betting on Balance: A Narrative Inquiry of Aboriginal Problem Gamblers (IPHR/NAHO funded study)

Masters Student Supervision (completed):

Claire Kreuger, defended December 15, 2017

Thesis: A Colonial Space Endeavouring to Do Differently: Reading, Writing and Reconciliation in the Elementary Classroom

Nicole Strandlund, defended December 11, 2014

Thesis: The March of Remembrance and Hope: Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice Activism

Heather Findlay, defended April 2014

Thesis: Just a Pepper in a Bunch of Salt: Aboriginal Students’ Stories of School

*Winner of the SSBA Graduate Student Thesis Award

Krista Allen, defended February 2013 (SSHRC funded study)

Thesis: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Couples in Intercultural Relationships

Tana Mitchell, defended March 10, 2007

Thesis: Constructing Engagement in a Social Studies Classroom

Publications

Teaching for truth: engaging with difficult knowledge to advance reconciliation

Author(s): Tupper, J.A. & Mitchell, T.A.
Publication Date: 2021
Publication: Pedagogy, Culture & Society
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Page Numbers: 349-365
DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2021.1977983

Social Theory for Teacher Education Research: Beyond the Technical Rational

Author(s): Kathleen Nolan & Jennifer Tupper
Publication Date: 9/30/2020
Publication: Bloomsbury

Teachers walking together for truth and reconciliation

Author(s): Tupper, J. & Mitchell, T.
Publication Date: 2018
Publication: Research Report for the Stirling McDowell Foundation

Cracks in the Foundation: (Re)Storying Settler Colonialism

Author(s): Tupper, J
Publication Date: 2018
Publication: In N. Ng-a-Fook & K. Llewellyn (Eds.), Storying Historical Consciousness in Time of Reconciliation: Oral History, Public Education, and Cultures of Redress. Routledge.

Storying treaties and the treaty relationship: Enhancing treaty education through digital storytelling

Author(s): Couros A., Lewis, P., Montgomery, K., Tupper, J., Hildebrandt, K. & Naytowhow, J.
Publication Date: 2013
Publication: International Review of Qualitative Research
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page Numbers: 544-558

Treaty Education for Ethically Engaged Citizenship

Author(s): Tupper, J.
Publication Date: 2012
Publication: Citizenship Teachingand Learning
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page Numbers: 143-156

(Re)Creating Citizens: Saskatchewan high school students’ understanding of the ‘good’ citizen

Author(s): Tupper, J. & Cappello, M.
Publication Date: 2012
Publication: Journal of Curriculum Studies
Volume: 44
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 37-60

Preparing Beginning Teachers for Treaty Education

Author(s): Tupper, J.
Publication Date: 2011
Publication: In Education
Volume: 17
Issue: 3

Teaching Treaties as (Un)Usual Narratives: Disrupting the Curricular Commonsense

Author(s): Tupper, J. & Cappello, M.
Publication Date: 2008
Publication: Curriculum Inquiry
Volume: 38
Issue: 5
Page Numbers: 559-578