Jennifer MacDonald, University of Regina

Research

Maps Counter-Mapping Dialogue Relationships Decolonizing Truth and Reconciliation Interdisciplinary Indigenous worldviews

Latest papers

Playing the story: Learning with young children's in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play.
Journal of early childhood literacy · 2025 · senior author
Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play.
Journal of literacy research : JLR · 2025 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Anti-colonial land-based climate justice pedagogies for Canadian secondary classrooms: Education for repair, healing, joy, and "relational renewal"
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$379,736
Envisioning Practices to Renew Foundational Treaty and Agreement Education
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$44,935
Seeing, Reading, and Experiencing the World Differently: Interdisciplinary Possibilities of Counter-Mapping for Truth and Reconciliation Education
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$54,971

All 3 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Playing the story: Learning with young children's in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play.

Lenters K, Mosher R, MacDonald J

Journal of early childhood literacy2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/14687984221144231 PMID: 40386350

02

Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play.

Mosher R, Lenters K, MacDonald J

Journal of literacy research : JLR2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/1086296x251318428 PMID: 40151390

Anti-colonial land-based climate justice pedagogies for Canadian secondary classrooms: Education for repair, healing, joy, and "relational renewal"

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pillay, Thashika

$379,736

Envisioning Practices to Renew Foundational Treaty and Agreement Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Scott, David

Keywords: Treaties; Agreements with Métis; Indigenous Education; relational pedagogies

$44,935

Seeing, Reading, and Experiencing the World Differently: Interdisciplinary Possibilities of Counter-Mapping for Truth and Reconciliation Education

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Jennifer

Keywords: Maps; Counter-Mapping; Dialogue; Relationships; Decolonizing; Truth and Reconciliation; Interdisciplinary; Indigenous worldviews; Kinship; Education

$54,971

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Kimberly Lenters

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Maps Dear Professor MacDonald, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Playing the story: Learning with young children's in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Seeing, Reading, and Experiencing the World Differently: Interdisciplinary Possibilities of Counter-Mapping for Truth and Reconciliation Education" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]