Nicole Bell
Associate Professor
nicolebell@trentu.ca
705-748-1011 ext 7722
OCA 148
Nicole is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Education. Her research areas include: Indigenous culture-based education, infusion of Indigenous knowledge into public schooling and teacher education, decolonization and healing, and Indigenous research theory and methodology. Nicole is Anishnaabe (Bear Clan) from Kitigan Zibi First Nation in Quebec. She is the mother of five boys and is passionate about Indigenous education, motivated by her educational experiences personally and as a mother.
Publications
Books Authored
Culturally Relevant Aboriginal Education. Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada, 2014
The Ways of Knowing Guide. Toronto: Turtle Island Conservation, Toronto Zoo, 2011
Just Do It: Providing Anishinaabe culture-based education. Germany: VDM, 2010.
Chapters in Books
Bell, N. (2019). Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin: Living Spiritually With Respect, Relationship, Reciprocity, and Responsibility. In Karrow, D. & DiGiuseppe, M. (Eds). Environmental and Sustainability Education in Preservice Teacher Education: Proceedings of Canadian National Roundtable. New York, NY: Springer.
Bell, N. (2018). Anishinaabe Research and Methodology as Informed by Nanaboozhoo, the Bundle Bag, and the Medicine Wheel. In McGregor, D., Restoule, J. P., & Johnston, R. (Eds.). Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships (pp. 175-186). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars.
Bell, N. (2018). Anishinaabe Fasting: Respecting the Power of Creation. In Joensuu, E. & Lane, J. (Eds.). Everyday World Making: Toward an Understanding of Motherhood and Affect (pp. 219-237). Bradford, ON: Demeter Press.
Bell, N., Rodenburg, J. (2017). Pathway to Stewardship: A Framework for Children and Youth. State of the World 2016: The World Watch Institute. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company.
Bell, N. (2016). Mino-Bimaadiziwin: Education for the Good Life. In Deer, F., Falkenburg, T. (Eds.). Indigenous Perspectives on Education for Well-Being in Canada. Education for Sustainable Well-Being Press.
“Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin: Living Spiritually with Respect, Relationship, Reciprocity, and Responsibility”. In A. Kulnieks, D. Longboat, K. Young. Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies: A curricula of stories and place. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2013
“Creating Shared Understandings: Meeting Indigenous Education Needs”. In D. Stanley & K. Young. Contemporary Studies in Canadian Curriculum: Principles, portraits, and practices. Detselig, 2011
“Introduction”. In Brock University. Tomorrow is Mine: Responding to the needs of Aboriginal children in education. Brock University: Tecumseh Centre for Indigenous Research, 2009
Articles
Bell, N. (2020). Land As Teacher: Using learning from the land and Indigenous people to shape tomorrow's teachers. Education Canada, Vol. 60(1).
Papers in Refereed Journals
Bell, N. (2015). Education as reconciliation: Using the medicine wheel. In Principal Connections: Aboriginal Education, 19(2), 44-45.
“Just Do It: Anishinaabe Culture-Based Education”. Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 36(1). Pp. 36-58, 2013
“Learning the Good Life: Situating Indigenous research in the academy”. Journal of AlterNative, vol. 1, 2005
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Anishinaabe Culture-Based Education as Transformative Educational Praxis. World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education. New Zealand, 2005
Peer Reviewed Papers
“Teaching By The Medicine Wheel: An Anishinaabe Framework for Indigenous Education”. Education Canada. Vol. 54(3), 2014
“Eco-Mentorship: A Pre-Service Outdoor Experiential Teacher Education Initiative at Trent University”. With Elliott, P., Rodenburg, J., & Young, K. Pathways: Outdoor Education Journal, 2013
Vignettes
“Learning From the Land and Indigenous People”. In. H. Inwood & S. Jagger. Deeper: Deepening Environmental Education in Pre-service Education Resource. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto, 2014
Reports
Culturally Appropriate Library Resources Supporting Aboriginal Perspectives in the Ontario Curriculum Project. Renfrew County District School Board, Pembroke. Included a report of current resources in schools with recommendations for improvement, 2009
Program Review of the Omushkeego Education Aboriginal Teacher Education Program. Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Queen’s University Kingston, 2008
Report of Research Findings. Canchild Centre For Childhood Disability Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, 2003
Report of Research Findings. Community Action Program for Children, Peterborough Family Resource Centre, Peterborough, 2002
Program Review. Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Queen’s University, Kingston, 1998
Education Kits
Living in Balance: Teachings of the Medicine Wheel. Burleigh Falls Healing and Wellness Program, Burleigh Falls, 1995