MARIA JOSE ATHIE MARTINEZ

ABOUT ME
Educator with a passion for decolonizing, indigenizing and culturally responsive education. Specialization in Indigenous, reconciliation, culturally responsive education.
I am an academic and work mainly in the area of curriculum development in participatory action research projects with indigenous communities in Mexico, Canada and the United States.
I love my profession and therefore I size it to different areas such as environment, sustainability, art, etc.

LANGUAGES
Spoken, Read and Written
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Spanish
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English
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Italian
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French
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Ayuuk Jaay, Mayan
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hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓/Musqueam,
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Nahuatl
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Purepecha
Native speaker
Fluent
Fluent
Intermediate
Intermediate
Basic
Basic
Basic
AWARDS
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Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, UBC Department of Educational Studies, in the Faculty of Education, December, 2021
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UBC President Award-tuition- 2021-2022
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4 Year Funding by UBC, Scholarship 2017-2021
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CONACYT Comission of National Science and Technology Scholarship 2012-2016
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Delegate of Indigenous people in Latin America for the World Indigenous People Conference on Education, WIPCE 2014, Honolulu, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA
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Organization of American States Scholarship 2008-2010
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Secretaria de Educación Pública (complementary scholarship) 2008-2010
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UGF offered scholarship award 2009
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Honorary Mention for Bachelor’s degree, grade score 9.75 out of 10, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2005
EDUCATION
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PhD Candidate in Curriculum Studies,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2017 - current
Dissertation: Undesrtanding reconciliation in the classroom: teachers sharing their reconciliation approach
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Master of Arts in Curriculum Studies,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2010
Co-created culturally responsive math education classes collaborating with Elder, teachers, and math educator.
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Bachelors (Honours) Degree on Education
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 2005
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Early Childhood Montessori studies ages 0-3 & 3-6,
Centro Internazionale Maria Montessori “Casa dei bambini” and “Comunita infantile”, Perugia Italy, 2001
