Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
A member of Douglas First Nation, Dr. Cole’s scholarship centres on narrativity, orality, Indigenous ecoliteracies, Indigenous methodologies and Indigenizing the academy. His research has focused on regeneration of traditional ecological knowledges with the St’at’imc, and more recently with the Kichwa-Lamista in Peru. Peter played a key role in initiating the dialogue on Indigenous research with SSHRC. He is the Co-Advisor of the MEd in Ecojustice & Sustainability Education, and Co-Director of the Peru Summer Institute: Ecology, Technology & Indigeneity in the High Amazon.
Contributions:
Cole, P. (2012). Coyote and Raven talk about Indigenizing environmental education: Or reconfiguring the shenanigans of Otis O’Dewey Esquire. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 17(1), 15–29.
Cole, P. (2006). Coyote and Raven go canoeing: Coming home to the village. Montréal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press (Native and Northern Series).
Cole, P. (2002). aboriginalizing methodology: considering the canoe. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 15(4), 447–459.
Cole, P., & O’Riley. P. (in press, 2015). In(di)genuity in Design and Technology Education. In K. Stables & S. Keirl (Eds.), Environment, ethics and cultures: Design and Technology Education’s contribution to sustainable global futures. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Agyeman, J., Cole, P., Haluza-DeLay, R. & O’Riley, P. (Eds.). (2009). Speaking for ourselves: Environmental justice in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.