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EDOKPAYI OMOREGIE

Sherwood Park,AB

Summary

As an educator, I am devoted to relational pedagogies that place emphasis on ethical values, especially those of respecting and dignifying human life. I believe classrooms offer the opportunity to improve young people's lives for the greater good of humanity..

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Graduate (TEACHING)

Memorial University of Newfoundland, John
St. John's, NL
01.2016 - 07.2017
  • Advised students on academic plan and course selection
  • Lead discussion sections, tutorials, and guide class discussions
  • Teach undergraduate level course- ED6675 (Curriculum Issues in Rural Education)
  • Evaluate examinations, assignments, or papers and record grades
  • Distribute instructional or library materials
  • Return assignments to students under established deadlines
  • Schedule and maintain regular office hours to meet with students
  • Provide instructors with help in using audiovisual equipment
  • Prepared reports summarizing student progress throughout the semester.
  • Organized educational events such as seminars, symposiums, conferences.
  • Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge
  • Assist faculty members to review draft copies of books and articles pending publication

Social Worker/ Counsellor

United Nations
Monrovia, Liberia
01.2000 - 12.2005
  • Worked with refugees in Liberia and Sierra Leone to help with bringing victims of war back to normal life
  • Teaching Children and young adults at IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camps
  • Assist in organizing programs that promote peace among belligerent ethnic groups
  • Organize programs that encourage peaceful co-existence through ethics and restorative justice education in IDP Camps in Liberia and Sierra Leone

Social Study Teacher

Army Command Secondary School
, Edo
03.1993 - 12.1998
  • Planned and implemented creative lessons in accordance with National Curriculum
  • Encouraged students with special academic interests to fully pursue those subjects
  • Assist in the development of leadership training programs for students
  • Develop lesson plans to promote citizenship education of students

Social Study/Government Teacher

St Thomas Academy
, Edo
03.1988 - 12.1991
  • Taught social study and citizenship education in Nigeria
  • Design lesson plans for classroom instruction
  • Coordinate program and activities for youth engagement and leadership training

Research Assistant

University of Alberta
  • I conducted a literature review of research in reconciliation education covering the last ten years, including bibliographic information for each source
  • A summary and my perspective on the source that considers its strengths and limitations
  • Organized the literature based on the research location: Canada; Australia, New Zealand; United States; South Africa and any other countries that emerge through your search
  • I have compiled a list of recommendations that emerge through literature review, including recommendations for future research.

Graduate Research Assistant

Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Assist faculty member to collect, research and analyze data
  • Assist faculty member (Supervisor) to conduct focus group interviews and surveys
  • Research, study, evaluate and perform data analysis using thematic data analysis
  • Perform data management for faculty members
  • Assist senior research staff in their day-to-day academic task
  • Review and advise on appropriate research methodologies
  • Assist faculty member in researching for relevant up to date materials for literature reviews

Education

Ph.D. Student - Secondary Education

University of Alberta
08.2023

Master of Arts -

Memorial University of Newfoundland - St. John's
01.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

University of Benin

Skills

  • Project Support
  • Data Analysis
  • Faculty Collaboration
  • Academic Presentations
  • Academic Research
  • Event Coordination
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Class Engagement
  • Research
  • Tutoring and Student Assistance
  • Curriculum Input
  • Curriculum Development
  • Grant Writing
  • Academic Publication
  • Thesis Guidance

Accomplishments

  • High Achievement Academic Award: Golden key International Honour Society
  • Funding
  • Graduate Research Grant for the Canada’s SSHRC Historical Thinking Project ($25000)
  • Supervisor: Dr
  • Jennifer Tupper
  • Research Grant-Qualitative Metasynthesis (Literature Review): Reconciliation in preserve teacher education (SSHRC Historical thinking project
  • ($2000)
  • Supervisor: Dr
  • Jennifer Tupper

Timeline

Graduate (TEACHING)

Memorial University of Newfoundland, John
01.2016 - 07.2017

Social Worker/ Counsellor

United Nations
01.2000 - 12.2005

Social Study Teacher

Army Command Secondary School
03.1993 - 12.1998

Social Study/Government Teacher

St Thomas Academy
03.1988 - 12.1991

Research Assistant

University of Alberta

Graduate Research Assistant

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Ph.D. Student - Secondary Education

University of Alberta

Master of Arts -

Memorial University of Newfoundland - St. John's

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

University of Benin

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Omoregie, A.E (2017). Thoughts and Reflections on Nigerian Pedagogy through the Lens of Engaging Minds: Influence and Personal Experience from the Four Moments of Educational Practices, Journal of Education and Practices Vol 8 (24)

Omoregie, A.E (2017), Can Restorative Practice in Schools Make the Difference? A Critical Reflection from Scotland Restorative School Project, Journal of Education and Practices Vol 8 (24)

Omoregie A.E (2018). A paradigm shift through talking circle: A narrative study to investigate the impact of restorative justice education on students after completing an introductory graduate course in RJE. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Master's Thesis.

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Omoregie, A.E (2021, June 2). The significance of Philosophy as a foundation for restorative justice education: What a narrative study reveals [panel presentation]. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference 2021, Alberta, Canada., Edmonton, Canada

. Omoregie, AE & Tupper J. (2021, May 30). Truth, Reconciliation & Teacher Education. In D. Scott, Education for Pre-service Teachers: Contemporary Trends, Trajectories, and Future Directions. [Symposium]. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Edmonton, Canada

Omoregie (2020). Phenomenology of a restorative graduate classroom. Citizenship Education. In (CERN) Panel presentation: restorative approach as a culture Shift in Schools Ottawa, Canada

Omoregie AE (2020, November). International graduate experience in Rj circle pedagogy. Canada restorative justice consortium workshop virtual presentation. National restorative justice symposium. Canada

Omoregie, AE. (2018, March). Countering youth radicalization, religious extremism and terrorism through education. Paper Presentation; Aldrich Conference -Research as a Tool for Effecting Change, St. John’s NL

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Andersen, C. (2012). Teacher education, Aboriginal studies, and the new national curriculum. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, The, 41(1), 40.

Bissell, A., & Korteweg, L. (2016). Digital narratives as a means of shifting settler- teacher horizons toward reconciliation. Canadian Journal of Education, 39(3),

Cannon, M. J. (2012). Changing the subject in teacher education: Centering Indigenous diasporic, and settler colonial relations. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 4(2), 21-37.

Gestsdóttir, S. M., van Drie, J., & van Boxtel, C. (2019). Teaching historical thinking and reasoning in upper secondary schools in Iceland: results of an observation study. Nordidactica: Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education, (2019: 2), 90-113

Hanson, A. J. (2018). Relational encounters with Indigenous literatures. McGill Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill, 53(2).

Higgins, M., Madden, B., & Korteweg, L. (2015). Witnessing (halted) deconstruction: White teachers’ ‘perfect stranger’ position within urban Indigenous education. Race Ethnicity and Education, 18(2), 251-276.

Keliipio, K., Perry, K., & Elderton, C. (2018). A collaborative sharing of stories on a journey toward reconciliation:" belonging to this place and time". McGill Journal of Education, 53(2), 350-361.

Kerr, J. (2014). Western epistemic dominance and colonial structures: Considerations for thought and practice in programs of teacher education. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(2).

Kinzel, C. (2020). Indigenous knowledge in early childhood education: Building a nest for reconciliation. Journal of Childhood Studies, 19-32.

Madden, B. (2019). A de/colonizing theory of truth and reconciliation education. Curriculum Inquiry, 1-29.

Manning, R., & Harrison, N. (2018). Narratives of place and land: teaching Indigenous histories in Australian and New Zealand teacher education. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 43(9).

Mashford-Pringle, A., & Nardozi, A. G. (2013). Aboriginal knowledge infusion in initial teacher education at the Ontario institute for studies in education at the University of Toronto. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 4(4).

McDowall, A. (2018). (Not) knowing walking the terrain of Indigenous education with preservice teachers. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47(2), 100- 108.

McGregor, H. E. (2017). One classroom, two teachers? historical thinking and Indigenous education in Canada. Critical Education, 8(14), 1-17.

Mclaughlin, J. M., & Whatman, S. (2015). Beyond social justice agendas: Indigenous knowledges in pre-service teacher education and practice in Australia. In Napier (Ed.), International perspectives on race (and racism): Historical and contemporary considerations in education and society New York, NY: Nova Science Press, 101-119

Miles, J. (2018). Teaching history for truth and reconciliation: The challenges and opportunities of narrativity, temporality, and identity. McGill Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill, 53(2).

Morcom, L., & Freeman, K. (2018). Niinwi-Kiinwa-Kiinwi: Building non-Indigenous allies in education through Indigenous pedagogy. Canadian Journal of Education, 41(3), 808-833.

Ng-A-Fook, N., & Smith, B. (2017). Doing oral history education toward reconciliation. In oral history and education (pp. 65-86). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Parkes, R. J., & Donnelly, D. (2014). Changing conceptions of historical thinking in History education: an Australian case study. Revista Tempo e Argumento, 6(11), 113-136.

Partington, G. (2002). Why Indigenous issues are an essential component of teacher education programs. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 27(2).

Phillips, D., & Whatman, S. (2007). Decolonising Preservice Teacher Education-reform at many cultural interfaces. The World of Educational Quality, 194-194.

Pratt, Y. P., & Danyluk, P. J. (2017). Learning what schooling left out: Making an Indigenous case for critical service-learning and reconciliatory pedagogy within teacher education. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation, 40(1), 1-29

Riley, T. (2019). Exceeding expectations: Teachers’ decision making regarding aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students. Journal of Teacher Education, 70(5), 512-525

Seixas, P., & Peck, C. L. (2004). Teaching historical thinking. In Challenges and prospects for Canadian social studies (pp. 109–117). Vancouver, BC, Canada: Pacific Educational

Seixas, P. (2006). Benchmarks of historical thinking: A framework for assessment in Canada. The Center for the Study of Historical Consciousness. Recuperado el, 12

Smith, Bryan, Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas, Berry, Sara & Spence, Kevin. (2011). Deconstructing A curriculum of dominance: teacher education, colonial frontier logics, and residential schooling. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry 8 (2)

Watson, K., & Currie-Paterson, N. (2018). Responding to the calls to action: reflections on teaching mandatory Indigenous Education to Teacher candidates in Ontario. Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill, 53(2)

Wiseman, D. (2018). Finding a place at home: The Trc as a means of (r) evolution in pre- service (Science) teacher education. McGill Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l' éducation de McGill, 53(2).

Academic Award

· High Achievement Academic Award: Golden key International Honour Society

Funding

· Graduate Research Grant for the Canada’s SSHRC Historical Thinking Project ($25000)

Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Tupper

· Research Grant-Qualitative Metasynthesis (Literature Review): Reconciliation in preserve teacher education (SSHRC Historical thinking project. ($2000)

Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Tupper

EDOKPAYI OMOREGIE