Heather Phipps is delighted and honoured to be teaching in the French Bac program at the University of Regina.
Heather completed her B. A./ B. Ed. in Humanities / Modern Languages( French) at the University of Lethbridge. She holds an M. A. in Second Language Education from McGill University. She has several years of classroom teaching experience in diverse contexts in Alberta and Québec. She is nearing completion of her PhD in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Her dissertation Children Speaking With Children: Visualizing Engagement Through Contemporary Canadian Picture Books in French Classrooms is a qualitative study in two primary classrooms in Montréal.
As for research and teaching interests, Heather’ s include language and literacy education, multilingualism, children’ s literature, imagination, social justice, community, indigenous education, and qualitative research methodologies.
Phipps is a published scholar who has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences, serves as a reviewer for several scholarly journals and for the Language and Literacy SIG of CSSE. She has extensive experience as a classroom teacher in a French immersion context, and has also taught education classes at the post-secondary level. She is past president of the McGill University Education Graduate Students’ Society.
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Sara Schroeter joined the Faculty of Education as an Assistant Professor of Drama Education in July of 2016. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who brings a range of experiences working in formal and informal educational settings in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and West Africa( Senegal) to her research and teaching.
Sara is completing her doctoral work at the University of British Columbia( UBC) in Literacy education. Her research investigates the use of drama for teaching social studies and engaging students in exploring differences of race, gender, class, and ethnicity that are embedded in the curriculum. Sara has primarily conducted her research in Francophone minority language schools, where there is a pressing need to examine the intersections of language, racialization, heteronormativity, and colonization.
Throughout her time at UBC, Sara was deeply involved in teaching, in French and English, in the Faculty of Education’ s undergraduate and graduate programs. She was awarded the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for excellence in teaching in 2014.
Sara enjoys learning about the histories and cultures of the places she lives and is thrilled to have the opportunity to learn more about life on Treaty 4 land. She considers Montreal and South- Eastern Ontario“ home,” though many years on the West Coast have rendered the smells of cedar and the ocean air home-like as well. On her journey to Regina with her family this past summer, Sara was awestruck by the beauty of Southern Saskatchewan and eager to see the rest of the province.
Linguiste de formation, Joël Thibeault complète actuellement un doctorat portant sur l’ enseignement et l’ apprentissage du verbe chez des élèves scolarisés en français dans le Sud-Ouest ontarien, un territoire marqué d’ une anglodominance prégnante. Parallèlement à la réalisation de sa thèse, il forme une cohorte de cinquante enseignants qui sont appelés à enseigner le français en Ontario et prend part à de nombreuses équipes de recherche, à l’ Université d’ Ottawa et à l’ Université du Québec à Montréal. Récipiendaire de la bourse Joseph-Armand-Bombardier du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, Joël s’ intéresse notamment aux enjeux sociolinguistiques qui façonnent l’ enseignement et l’ apprentissage du français et de sa grammaire en milieu minoritaire, au potentiel didactique que revêt la littérature de jeunesse dans l’ enseignement de la langue normée et à la didactique du plurilinguisme. C’ est avec enthousiasme qu’ il se joint au corps professoral de la Faculté d’ éducation de l’ Université de Regina et qu’ il envisage de collaborer avec les membres des collectivités universitaire et scolaire de la Fransaskoisie et, plus généralement, de la Saskatchewan.
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