Rosa Bruno-Jofré
Professor of History of Education, Graduate Faculty
Licenciada en Historia, Profesora en Historia (U.Nacional del Sur, Argentina), PhD (Calgary)
Contact Information
Room: B203
Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 78413
Email: brunojor@queensu.ca
Research Interests
- History of education. Theory and History
- History of women, religious and Catholic history
- Citizenship issues in education, polity formation, and globalization from a historical perspective
- Educational theory
Profile
Rosa Bruno-Jofré, PhD is a Professor at and former dean (2000-2010) of the Faculty of Education cross-appointed to the Department of History, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Queen’s University, Canada. Her areas of expertise are history of education and educational theory. She is founding co-editor of Encounters/Encuentros/Rencontres on Education published jointly by the Faculty of Education at Queen’s and the Faculty of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She also serves as associated editor of Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, the journal of the Canadian History of Education Association (former senior co-editor). She is the founding editor of the Queen’s Education Letter and serves on the board of numerous journals including the Revista Complutense de Educación (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Bordón (Journal of the Spanish Pedagogical Society); Historia de la Educación (Universidad de Salmanca); AULA Revista de Pedagogía de la Universidad de Salamanca; and EDUCARE (Journal of the Association of Indonesian Scholars of History of Education). She is the guest editor of Paedagogica Historica, International Journal of the History of Education, special issue, "Catholic teaching congregations and synthetic configurations: Building identify through pedagogy and spirituality across national boundaries and cultures (vol. 49, no. 4, 2013). She is guest-editor with Daniel Trohler of Pensamiento Educativo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (May 2014).
Dr. Bruno-Jofré coordinates the Theory and History of Education International Research Group. Her most recent books are Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions: The Readings of John Dewey’s Understanding of Democracy and Education (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010) co-authored with members of the Group, Scott Johnston, Gonzalo Jover, and Daniel Tröhler. She is the co-editor with Jürgen Schriewer (Humboldt–Universitat Berlin) of The Global Reception of Dewey’s Thought (Routledge, 2011) which includes contributions from members of the Group and a host of international researchers. With James Scott Johnston, she has co- edited and recently submitted a special collection entitled Teacher Education within a Globalizing and Transnational World, which includes members of the Group as well as a roaster of international scholars.
She is the sole author of The Missionary Oblate Sisters: Vision and Mission, published by McGill/Queen’s Press in 2005 and translated into French in 2008. The book was short-listed for the Margaret McWilliams Award in the category of scholarly history for 2005. She also published Methodist Education in Perú: Social Gospel, Politics, and American Ideological and Economic Penetration, 1888-1930 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) in 1988. She edited, among other books and monographs, Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society, with Natalia Aponiuk, a book published by the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association in 2001. She has published articles and chapters in books in various languages including a chapter in Vatican II in Canada, edited by Catherine Clifford and Michael Attridge, University of Ottawa Press, 2011. Some of her most recent articles are “Visions of Excellence in Ontario: The case of the Hall-Dennis Report" (1968) and "For the Love of Learning" (1994) (co-authored with Skip Hills), in Educational Theory, the Journal of the John Dewey Society,61, no. 3 (July 2011); Popular Education in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Mapping its Political and Pedagogical Meanings”, in Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education (successor of Zeitschrift für pädagogische Historiographie); with Jon Igelmo Zaldívar, "Ivan Illich’s late critique of Deschooling Society: 'I was largely barking up the wrong tree'”, Educational Theory; with Gonzalo Jover, "El Educando como Sujeto y el Lugar del Juego en el Debate Educativo de Finales del Siglo XIX en Norteamérica," Bordon, Journal of the Sociedad Española de Pedagogía 665, 1 (2013); The Missionary Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate (MO) and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM): the intersection of education, spirituality, the politics of life, faith, and language, in the Canadian Prairies, 1898-1930, Paedagogica Historica, 49, 4 (2013).
Dr. Bruno-Jofre’s current research, on The Canadian Province of the Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions: The Horizon Reference and their Educational Work, is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She is working with her post-doctoral fellow Jon Igelmo on The Center for Intercultural Formation, its Reports (1962-1967), and a critical understanding of mission in Latin America. She is starting a long-term project with Maria Eugenia Merino Dickinson (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile) on Women Missionary Teaching Congregations in the Araucanía in Chile and the Building of the Self in Mapuche Children. She continues working with Gonzalo Jover on the pedagogical creeds of the end of the XIX century in North America and their reception in Spain.
Dr. Bruno-Jofré has lectured or served as a visiting professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid at various times; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago and Villarrica Campuses; Humboldt–Universitat Berlin; Institut d’Études Européennes-IEE; University Paris 8; Université du Luxembourg, campus Walferdange; University of Salamanca, Spain; and Universidad del País Vasco, among other places. She was a keynote speaker at a number of international events, among them: member of the keynote panel at the 2005 Global Forum: The Broad Convergence, at the Palais d’ Egmont in Brussels, Belgium; plenary keynote speaker at the Congreso Iberoamericano de Pedagogía: 200 años después de la independencia, September 2010, Toluca, sponsored by the Secretary of Education of the State of México and the Sociedad Española de Pedagogía; keynote speaker as part of the Celebration of the Centenary of the Normal School Building, Escuela Normal de Toluca, Estado de Mexico, September 2010; and keynote speaker at the International Congress, Cultural Diversity: From Discrimination to Inclusion, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (organized by the Villarrica campus), Santiago, Chile, 2008.
She served as Vice-President representing English-speaking Canada, Consorcio Interamericano de Educación a Distancia (CREAD) between 2007 and 2009. She has been a Member of the Steering Committee (North America) of Global Forum since 2008. Global Forum is organized by Items International (Paris) and Fondation Sophia Antipolis and sponsored by an international roster of organizations, leading high-tech companies, and governments. In 2012, she served as a member of the international jury of the program “Investissement d’Avenir, French National Research Agency (ANR)” to adjudicate projects designed to innovate higher education in France.
In 1989, Dr. Bruno-Jofré received an Award for Distinguished Service from Western Washington University. In 2004, she received the Lamp of Learning Award in recognition of her contribution to public education in Ontario, presented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation. She was a Distinguished Visiting Professor from March to mid-June 2010 at the Department of Theory and History of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as a recipient of a Group Santander Award.
Her current post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Jon Igelmo, is holder of an award from the government of the Basque Country, Spain.
She co-supervises a doctoral student from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid doing a research residence with her, Patricia Quiroga Uceaga.
She also has a MEd student, Radhika Joshie.