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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