Professor, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Health and Education - FHLS

Professor, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Health and Education - FHLS - (36236) Description Find Your Spot at Humber

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As part of Humber’s commitment to advancing the inclusion of Indigenous students, professors, and staff, and pursuant to section 14 of the Ontario Human Rights Code, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences invites candidates from Indigenous communities, including those who identify as First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, or from other Indigenous groups on Turtle Island including Alaskan Native, Native American and Native Hawaiian people, to apply for the Professor, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Health and Education.

Please note that during the Humber recruitment process, you will be asked to confirm you have met these requirements and be asked to communicate with us about your lived experience and your connection to your Indigenous community. Job Details

• Position Title:
  
  Professor, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Health and Education
• Status: FT Academic
• Faculty/Department:
  Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
• Campus/
  
  Location:
  
  Currently based at North Campus; may be assigned to any Humber campus, including Lakeshore and IGS
• Salary:
  Academic starting salaries are determined based on qualifications and years of related experience as detailed in the collective agreement for academic employees.

About the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Humber:

The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences is committed to sharing knowledge and experience with students to help them become skilled, adaptable, compassionate and career-ready graduates. Our faculty experts reinforce excellence and a commitment to social justice and transformation as students learn to work across a range of careers in the healthcare and wellness fields. Teaching and learning are student-centred with an emphasis on technological innovation, diversity and integrated community and clinical industry collaborations.

About

the Professor, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Health and

Education:

As part of our commitment to Indigenous Education, and in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Calls to Action # 7, 12, 22, 23, and 24, Humber has created a Professor, Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Health and Education role to support the growth and development of culturally safe education and professional practice. As indicated in the TRC Calls to Action, at a baseline level, it is essential that students develop an understanding of determinants that support Indigenous peoples’ health and wellness including culturally responsive strengths-based interventions and culturally safe care.

This requires students to move beyond baseline awareness of historical/contemporary impacts of colonialism to a recognition of systems-based strengths and inadequacies and interventions that address health inequities experienced by Indigenous peoples.

While teaching predominantly in the Early Childhood Education and Nursing programs, the successful candidate may develop curriculum and teach courses or modules within a variety of programs within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. The position will add breadth to the faculty’s current course offerings focusing broadly on Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Determinants of Health, and/or Indigenous Cultures, Pedagogies, Histories, and Contemporary Experiences, while also supporting the development of new aligned curricula.

The successful candidate will have experience effectively…