in education: Recent submissions
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Epistemic Terrains and Epistemic Potential: A Review of "How I Should Know? Preservice Teachers' Images of Knowing (By Heart) in Mathematics and Science"
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)A book review of Kathleen T. Nolan's How Should I Know? Preservice Teachers’ Images of Knowing (by heart) in Mathematics and Science (238 pp.). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. -
A Review of "A New Literacies Sampler"
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)A book review of Knobel's and Lankshear's (2007), A New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-9523-1 -
"Being with" Bipolar disorder
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)In this paper, I explore the impact of bipolar disorder on the experiences of two groups of postsecondary students. I theorize that Bourdieu’s (1986) theory of forms of capital provides a lens for understanding how these ... -
Administrators’ Lessons Learned: Considerations in Establishing Demonstration Classrooms
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)This paper presents the perspectives of some administrators whose school sites hosted demonstration classrooms that were implemented as part of a board-wide professional development initiative. Administrators highlighted ... -
Integral Development and Educational Renewal in Saskatchewan: A Visionary Process
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)“We must educate to survive, critique and create.” (Berry, as cited in O’Sullivan, 1999, p. 8) Transformative educators such as Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Edmund O’Sullivan believe that the time has come for a shift ... -
Educational Relevance of the Arts in a Technocratic World
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)Today, it is important to acknowledge our investment in the technologized visual culture world, but at the same time within that investment, allow for active participation in forms that press for engagement and reflection. ... -
Modeling in the Classroom: What Approaches are Effective to Improve Students' Writing?
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)Effective writing is a learned skill, required to advance many forms of learning both in classroom contexts, and in job and career contexts. Previous research (Graham & Perin, 2007) has identified many strategies that ... -
Dilemmas in Using Phenomenology to Investigate Elementary School Children Learning English as a Second Language
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)This paper is intended for doctoral students and other researchers considering using phenomenology as a methodology to investigate the experiences of children learning English as a second language in an elementary classroom ... -
in education 17(1) Editorial
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2011)An introduction to our Spring 2011 issue. -
What’s Your Story? A Book Review of Leah Fowler’s "A Curriculum of Difficulty: Narrative Research in Education and the Practice of Teaching" (2006)
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)This is a book review of Leah Fowler’s (2006) book entitled, A Curriculum of Difficulty: Narrative Research and the Practice of Teaching. This review was written as a complementary piece for Lisa A. Mitchell’s (2010) paper ... -
Book Review: "Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy & Praxis"
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)A review of Marcelo Diversi and Claudio Moreira's (2009) book, Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy & Praxis. -
Special Feature: Eight Orbitals of Inquiry: Reconceptualizing Narrative Methods in Education Research
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)Eight orbitals of narrative analysis are presented as a long term interest in autobiographical inquiry, narrative methodology, and curriculum studies in education research. This is also an experiment in thought and play ... -
Making Education Law Meaningful to Beginning Teachers: A Narrative Inquiry
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)Teacher education classes are contested spaces. Professors interested in reforming content, pedagogy and assessment must wrestle with their own internal tensions and the culture of their institutions in order to make a ... -
The Relationship of Narrative, Virtue Education, and an Ethic of Care in Teaching Practice
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)This paper is a philosophical examination of the role of narrative in moral education. We argue that narrative, conceived of as a moral educational practice and not as a method, is an indispensable element of both caring ... -
"Be strong, know what you need": A Narrative on Inclusive Leadership
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)Based on an in-depth interview with a retired school principal, this paper explores questions around what it means to practice inclusive leadership in an Ontario school board from the mid 1970s into the 21st century. Using ... -
Challenging Our Stories as Teacher Educators for Social Justice: Narrative as Professional Development
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)In this paper we report on a collaborative self-study in which we reflect upon our practice as teacher educators through a critical multicultural and white studies framework. We developed a pedagogical tool for our own ... -
Mathematics Teacher Educator Identity: A Conversation Between a Specialist and Generalist
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)In this paper we consider the ways the constructs of being a generalist and specialist in teaching have contributed to our stories to live by in mathematics teacher education. We employ narratives of experience to serve ... -
Through a Stereoscopic Viewer: Transient Moments in Remembered Thyme
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)From the emulsion of images taken yesterday, we develop our engagement in time today—the then that is always changing into now. Weathered shutters close together. Driftwood shifts on rocky sand. Sedges grow among the ... -
A Continuum of Learning: Enhancing Connections Between Teacher-Candidates and Education Graduate Students Through a Narrative Framework
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)This paper was written to complement the book review; "What’s Your Story? A Book Review of Leah Fowler’s A Curriculum of Difficulty: Narrative Research in Education and the Practice of Teaching" (2006), which can also be ... -
Not Making the Grade: A Narrative Inquiry into Timmy’s Experiences with the Mandated Curriculum
(University of Regina, Faculty of Education, 2010)This research draws on the experiences of a Grade 1 delayed reader, his parents, and his teachers, to show his lived curriculum across his home and school contexts. This narrative inquiry is situated in the literature of ...
