Dr. Suke Padam
BA (Arts – Soc. & Anth., UBC), B.Ed. (Education – Secondary, UBC), MBA (Business Administration – MIS, Washington), M.Ed. (Education – Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC), PhD (Education – Department of Educational Studies, UBC)Suke was appointed twice to the prestigious Liu Institute School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia as an emerging PhD scholar with a methodological framework conceptualizing solidarity among Indigeneity across international boundaries. He has pedagogical and curricular expertise in design, delivery, and implementation of technological program deployment. He has worked in diverse educational settings, ranging from educational to professional training environments - including not-for-profit institutions to budgets ranging in excess of $500,000 at the provincial/federal level.
Suke’s past experience is heavily embedded in professional education, teaching 16 years with SD43 Coquitlam, working tirelessly as a college-level professor for 7 years (Douglas College, North Island College, and Coquitlam College), and more recently as a sessional instructor at UBC in the B.Ed. Teacher Education Program – Dept. of Educational Psychology & Special Education (5 years).
He brings to KPU considerable life-long learning experiences from academic institutions as a student, and as an instructor guiding higher education protocols as pathways and challenges in educational pedagogy and curriculum.
“Historically, solidarity and unity has never disenfranchised or alienated any community. Encouraging anything contrariwise must have had surreptitious intentions.”
Dr. S. Padam
Courses taught
- EDUC 1100 - Intro. to Higher Education
- EDUC 1150 - Intro. to Higher Education International
- EDUC 3220 - Children's Social and Emotional Development in Educational Settings
Areas of Interest
Higher Education, Educational Psychology – Assessment & Evaluation, Cultivating School Communities, Social and Emotional Learning, Education as Pedagogy, Adult Education, and Educational Technology Implementation.
Scholarly Work
- 2019 Title - Stories, Place & Partnerships Through Reclamation. Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (IGSS).
- 2018 Title - Weaving a Link of Resiliency in Aboriginality and Indigeneity: Relating the 4 R’s to the 4 C’s. UBC/SFU IGSS.
- 2017 Title - Michel Foucault’s Influence – From Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, to Reconciliation: The Effects of the Panopticon and Panopticism. SFU/UBC IGSS.
- 2016 Title - Technology and Power: Associated Ramifications of Outsider Influence upon FN Communities – Examining Pathologizing Practices, Deficit Thinking, and Marginalization. UBC/SFU IGSS.