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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University

Lisa Korteweg is an associate professor at Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, ON), on the traditional territory of the Fort William First Nation-Anemki Wajiw (signatory to the 1850 Robinson-Superior treaty), working with both settler and Indigenous students and teachers. Her academic work addresses settler colonialism in curriculum, Indigenous cultural safety in classrooms, decolonization theories of education and decolonial methods for critical praxis by settler teachers. Her community-based work focuses on questions of how schools grapple and teachers engage with the socially unjust realities of Indigenous youth who daily contend with anti-Indigenous racism and colonial inequities in education. With Tesa Fiddler, she collaborates on professional development and research projects to cultivate settler educator accountability to the TRC’s Calls to Action, while promoting service to families/communities, guided by Elders and knowledge keepers.

Experience

  • 2003–2021
    Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University