Life at SAIT
Julie Mooney is a settler-Canadian of Irish and Scottish ancestry, living and working in Moh’kinsstis (the Blackfoot word for the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers) on Treaty 7 territory and the Homeland of the Métis Nation of Alberta.
She is a full-time faculty member and educational developer in the Centre for Academic Development and Innovation (CADI) at SAIT.
Julie specializes in:
- leading and mentoring in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- collaborating to design and deliver professional learning experiences about decolonizing and Indigenizing teaching and curricular practices
- mentoring meaningful learning experiences
- guiding faculty teams in program-level curriculum review
- individual consultations on topics related to teaching, learning, curriculum, and research
- innovations in educational development – leading and mentoring in the field.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta
- Specialization in Adult, Community, and Higher Education
- Master of Arts (M.A.), Educational Leadership, McGill University
- Master of Arts (M.A.), Peace and Development Studies, Universidad Jaume I
- Bachelor of Kinesiology (B.Kin), University of Calgary
Professional accomplishments
- SoTL Poster Award, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Canada (2023)
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2020-2022)
- Leadership in Education Award, Delta Kappa Gamma Dr. Mildred Burns Award (2017)
- 3M National Teaching Fellowship, College Sector Educator Award (2015)
Research interests
- Decolonizing and Indigenizing teaching and curricular practices in higher education
- Mentoring meaningful learning experiences
- Experiential and land-based/place-based education
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Scholarship of Educational Development (SoED)
- Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL)
Publications and presentations
Mooney, J. A., Wexler, L, & Anderson, C. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Walking Together on Parallel Paths: Co-creating Ethical Space between Western and Indigenous Educational Practices. Special Journal Issue. New Directions for Teaching and Learning.
Mooney, J. A. (2024). Reckoning with Epistemological and Ontological Dissonance: A narrative inquiry into settler-Canadian professors’ experiences decolonizing and Indigenizing the academy. Settler Colonial Studies, 1-20.
Raffoul, J., Ward, J., Calvez, S., Kartolo, A., Haque, A., Holmes, T., Attas, R., Kechego, J., Kustra, E., & Mooney, J. A., (2022). Institutional Structures and Individual Stories: Experiences from the Front Lines of Indigenous Educational Development in Higher Education. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.
Mooney, J. A. & Miller-Young, J. (2021). The Educational Development Interview: A guided conversation supporting professional learning about teaching practice in higher education. International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD). In Special Issue: Conversations on Learning and Teaching. Open access online June 1, 2021.
Yeo, M., Boman, J., Mooney, J. A., Phillipson, A., da Rosa dos Santos, L., & Smith, E. (2019). Inquire, Imagine, Innovate: A Scholarly Approach to Curriculum Practice. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching (C.E.L.T.). 12: 155-165.
Miller-Young, J.E., Anderson, C., Kiceniuk, D., Mooney, J., Riddell, J., Schmidt Hanbidge, A., Ward, V., Wideman, M.A., Chick, N. (2017). Leading Up in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Eds. B. Marquis & N. Simmons. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL). 8(2): Article 4.
Lafferty, A. & Mooney, J. A. (2022). Co-composing of Poetic and Arts-Based Narratives: Un-Silencing and Honouring Our Voices as Women Academics. Chapter 5 in Eizadirad, A., Campbell, A., & Sider, S. (Eds.) Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003205296-7
Kanewischer, B. & Mooney, J. (in press). Decolonization is Not a Metaphor – A Professional Development Program for Faculty and Academic Leaders at a Canadian Polytechnic Institution. Learning Abstracts, July 2024. The League for Innovation in the Community
Mooney, J. (2024). Circle Pedagogy. In the Midst Educational Consulting Inc. Blog post.
Mooney, J. (2023). Land Acknowledgements in Settler-colonial Canada. In the Midst Educational Consulting Inc. Blog post.
Oki, Âba wathtech, Danit'ada, Tawnshi, Hello.
SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.