Jan Hare is an Anishinaabe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation, located in northern Ontario. As an Indigenous scholar and educator she has sought to transform education in ways that are more inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing and languages. Her research is concerned with improving educational outcomes for Aboriginal/Indigenous learners by centering Indigenous knowledge systems within educational reform from early childhood education to post-secondary, recognizing the holistic and multidisciplinary nature of Indigenous education.
PhD (UBC, Educational Studies)
MA (UWO, Educational Psychology)
BEd (Nipissing University, Primary-Junior)
BASc (Guelph University, Child Studies)
Dean pro tem for Faculty of Education
Associate Dean for Indigenous Education
Professorship of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Email: jan.hare@ubc.ca