SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Phipps on successfully defending her PhD at McGill University on November 23, 2016.
Congratulations to Dr. Sara Schroeter who successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of British Columbia on April 3, 2017.
Dr. Phipp’ s dissertation is entitled, " Children Speaking with Children: Visualizing Engagement Through Contemporary Canadian Picture Books in French Classrooms." This is an ethnographic study situated in a public primary school in urban Montreal. It documents young children’ s responses to Canadian children’ s literature in Grades 1 and 2 French classrooms. Her study highlights the ways in which children engage and respond to both the words and images in diverse Canadian literature, and how they reflect on their own lived experiences in relation to the picture books. Dr. Teresa Strong-Wilson and Dr. Claudia Mitchell supervised. Dissertation committee members included Dr. Anne Burke( Memorial University), Dr. Mary Maguire( McGill), and Dr. Mela Sarkar( McGill). The external examiner was Dr. Rahat Naqvi( University of Calgary).
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RESEARCH FUNDING AND AWARDS
SSHRC KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS GRANTS
Levac, L.( PI), Co-applicants: Cindy Hanson, Steinstra, D. McKay M. Baikie, G. & Mucina, D. Two eyed seeing and Intersectionality: Reconciling research approaches $ 24,000.00
Dr. Schroeter ' s dissertation is entitled,“ Difference at Play: An Ethnography of Discourse and Drama in Multiracial Classrooms in a Francophone Minority Language Schools.” Her study explores the discourses of difference( Foucault, Hall) that students used in and out of class and how they emerged during drama aqctivities in a minority language school in Canada. Specifically, the project examined the liminal spaces created by drama and other activities and how they provided momentary access to the students ' infomral discourses of race and ethnicity. The study raises questions about the possiblities of applied drama for unpacking discourses of difference when the focus is on the social studies curriculum, rather than the aesthetic art form that informed the drama pedagogy. Dr. Annette Henry and Dr. Lisa Loutzenheiser served as Sara’ s doctoral supervisors, and her external examiner was Dr. Nombuso Dlamini.
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CIHR INDIGENOUS APPROACHES TO WELLNESS RESEARCH GRANT
Angela Snowshoe "( Re) Connecting Animal-Human Relationships as a Doorway to Indigenous Wellness " $ 138,056.00
Andrea Sterzuk, with colleagues from McGill University and graduate students Bill Cook & Dennis Runns " Ethical relationality, Canadian applied linguistics and Indigenous language revitalization " $ 24,000.00
REGINA REGION LOCAL IMMIGRATION PARTNERSHIP
Christine Massing( Faculty of Education), Daniel Kikulwe & Donalda Halabuzu( Faculty of Social Work), & Crystal Geisbrecht( PATHS) " Barriers to Newcomer Adaptation and Settlement " $ 19,963.80
PHI DELTA KAPPA DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD
Christine Massing " An Ethnographic Study of Immigrant and Refugee Women’ s Knowledge Construction in an Early Childhood Teacher Education Program " $ 1000.00
PRAIRIEACTION FOUNDATION( PAF) YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD
fYrefly in Schools( Suzy Yim & Kyla Christiansen) Two GSA mini-conferences in Saskatoon and Regina Up to $ 3000.00
SIDRU RESEARCH GRANTS
Andrea Sterzuk & Russell Fayant " A comparative study of graduate thesis language policy in Canadian universities " $ 5000.00
Barbara McNeil " Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum( Part Two): Re-branding the Logo- A Museum Responds to Decolonization and Indigenization " $ 2500.00
Paul Clarke & Keith Walker( U of S) " Youth, School Leadership and Radicalization: What Can We Learn from Student Voices and Perspectives?" $ 2500.00
Christine Massing & Fatima Pirbhai-Illich " Constructing cross-curricular critical service learning experiences alongside early childhood teacher education candidates and newcomers to Canada " $ 2500.00
Jenn de Lugt " Beyond Understanding: Enhancing Pre-Service Teacher Empathy... is it Possible?" $ 2500.00
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