Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a full professor in the Faculty of Education. He is the former vice-dean of graduate studies, and director of the teacher education and Indigenous teacher education programs. He is actively engaged in addressing the 94 Calls to Action put forth by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in partnership with local Indigenous and school board communities. His teaching and research are situated within the wider international field of curriculum studies and life writing research. Professor Ng-A-Fook is currently part of several federally funded SSHRC partnership grants that seek to disrupt settler colonialism, systemic racisms, and inequities across the school and university curriculum. He is interested in collaborating with graduate students who are committed as Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens toward challenging ongoing systemic inequities. He created the podcast FooknConversationto address these challenges with colleagues, community activists, artists, educational leaders, teachers, and politicians. Learn more about his research at A Canadian Curriculum Theory Project.
Nicholas Ng-A-Fook
Profile
Books
Phelan, A., & Pinar, W., & Ng-A-Fook, N., & Kane, R. (2020).Reconceptualizing Teacher Education Worldwide: A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge
Llewellyn, K., R. & Ng-A-Fook, N. (2019).Oral History, Education, and Justice: Possibilities and Limitations for Redress and Reconciliation
Hebert, C., & Ng-A-Fook, N., & Smith, B., Ibrahim, A. (2019). Internationalizing Curriculum Studies: Histories, Environments, and Critiques
Journals & other
Phillips, P. & Ng-A-Fook, N. (2024). An Unsettling Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms, Curriculum, and Futurities. Journal for the American Advancement of Curriculum Studies, 16(1), 11-39.
Howell, L., & Ng-A-Fook, N. (2023). Just Because we’re small doesn’t mean we can’t stand tall: Reconciliation Education in the Elementary School Classroom.Studies in Social Justice, 17(1), pp. 112-135.
Wiscutie-Crépeau, N., Ng-a-Fook, N., Joncas, J. A., & Pageau, L. (2023). The Scope of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canadian Francophone Contexts. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 20(1), 1–11.
Howell, L., & Ng-A-Fook, N. (2022). A Case of Senator Lynn Beyak and Anti-Indigenous Systemic Racisms in Canada, Canadian Journal of Education, 45, 1-34.
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- Curriculum History of education (oral history) Community-based research Colonialisme de peuplement
- Life-writing research (autobiography and narrative inquiry)
- Critical youth studies (first generation immigrant and indigenous youth)
- Community-based research
- Contemporary Perspectives in Philosoph, Science and Technology (AI, Genomics Education, and Anti-Racist Science Education)