Background

I am a certified citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a member of the Métis Nation. I acknowledge that the Métis Nation is one of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada referred to in section 35 of the Constitution Act. My Métis Ancestry is fully documented in my St Boniface Historical Society Genealogy through my grandmother Isabella Young. I was born and raised in Northwestern Ontario on the Traditional Territory of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty 3.

Research Interests

Dr. Vicki Kelly's current research is in Indigenous Epistemologies, Knowledge Practices and Pedagogies; Education for Reconciliation and Healing; Art as an Indigenous Knowledge Practice and as a site for activism; Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence, incorporating Indigenous holistic learning models and pathways of Indigenous learning for Aboriginal and non-aboriginal learners; Two Eyed Seeing approaches to teacher education and curriculum development; integration of Indigenous knowledge practices and pedagogies in ecological education; the role of the arts in human development; Métissage as inquiry and curriculum; place-based performance and art as inquiry.

She is interested in the following research methodologies: Indigenous methodologies, arts-based narrative research, performative inquiry, narrative portraiture, Métissage and autobiographical or life writing, as well as teacher inquiry.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Kelly's areas of teaching focus are: Indigenous Education, Art Education, Ecological Education and Health Education; more specifically: Indigenous knowledges, literacies, and cultures; Indigenous pedagogies or aesthetic and Indigenous ways of knowing; holistic learning as well as integrative art practices and art therapy; spirituality and contemplative inquiry; teacher education and teacher inquiry.

Teaching