James Nahachewsky
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Biography
James Nahachewsky (PhD) is Dean of Education at the University of Regina; working and living on Treaty Four territory as an ally of the sovereign First Nations and Métis/Michif Nation. He was born, raised and educated in Saskatchewan. As a teacher, James found a home for his passion for literacy in the middle years and secondary classrooms; quickly becoming interested in understanding the impact of digital technologies on his students’ learning and on classroom teaching. These interests led him to complete a MEd degree at the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD at the University of Alberta. Since that time, James has taught extensively at the graduate and undergraduate levels, served in a number of leadership roles including as Associate Dean Undergraduate Programs in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, authored numerous articles, and presented nationally and internationally on his research in literacy learning, teaching and curriculum studies. He is co-editor of the book Beyond Presentism: Re-imagining the historical, personal and social places of curriculum and, as co-applicant, is part of a research team that recently received a $2.5 million, multi-year SSHRC partnership grant for their research project entitled Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education.
Research Areas
- Leadership
- Languages and Place-Based Learning
- Holocaust Education
- Schooling and AI
Departmental Major Research Areas
- Elementary, Middle Years and Secondary Teacher Education in French and English
- Arts Education
- Educational Psychology
Works of Note
Co-edited book:
Nahachewsky, J. & Johnson, I. (Eds.). (2009). Beyond ‘presentism’: Re-imagining the historical, personal and social places of curriculum. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: SensePublishers.
Recent (past 5 years) publication and paper presentations:
2025 Nahachewsky, J., Phipps, H., MacDonald, J., Baldo, E., & Cappo, J., (August). More than matter – the language of trees as learning catalyst. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland Biennial Conference, Galway, Ireland.
2025 Phipps, H., Baldo, E., Cappo, J., MacDonald, J. & Nahachewsky, J., (July) La terre, askiy, notre enseignante. 11th EDiLiC Conference - Plurilingual Literacies in Education. Hamburg, Germany.
2025 Phipps, H.; MacDonald, J., Baldo, E., Cappo, J., & Nahachewsky, J., Writing from this place and for this place: Land, literature and language (February). 10th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Conference, Calgary, AB.
2024 St. Clair, R., Shirdel Pour, M. & Nahachewsky, J. (2024) Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty: Students’ Assessment of Credibility in Online Materials, International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education (38, 2) https://doi.org/10.55667/ijede.2023.v38.i2.1289
2022 St. Clair, R., Shirdel Pour, M. & Nahachewsky, J. (October). Beauty is in the iPhone of the Beholder: Credibility Signals in Online Learning, American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Milwaukee, WI.
2022 Corner, S. & Nahachewsky, J. (March). Investing in Academic Advising to Improve Student Retention and Progression, Canadian Association of College & University Student Services.
2020 Nahachewsky, J. & Liu, S. (April). Changing Reading for Changing Lives? Understanding the Digital Reading Experiences of Canadian Youth, World Literacy Summit 20. Oxford, England.
2020 Nahachewsky, J., Efford, K., McGowan, K., & Webb, T., (February). Another Way to Experience Learning: The Impact of CORE on UVic Education Student Tutors. Western Canadian Association of Student Teaching, Vancouver, BC.